Just curious how one knows that one is allergic to a new drug in a commercial. You have to take it to find out you are allergic, right? The subsequent list of symptoms as reasons not to take it. Do those mean one is allergic? Not to my understanding. It’s reasonable if one knows one…
Non-specific error messages without a recourse are the bane of my existence. I need something I can do. An action i can take to fix the issue. In my professional life, my job is to fix it, so a vague meaningless error message means hours of trying things. Depending on impact, this might sit broken…
We talk quite a bit at work about technical debt. We typically think about all the things we have to keep updated and how so much of our time gets sucked into them. The real problems are the unknown things lurking where one person knows how they work that are fragile and good enough. Until…
It makes me happy to see Orion in the sky. Looking at it tonight, I thought, “East.” Suddenly, it clicked. My childhood home was east of my grandmother’s house. The most likely time to walk from her house to mine at night is this time of year. (It’s only really visible in the winter when…
I see of late this blog gets weird traffic spikes. They are for older posts, so unlikely to be from subscribers or RSS fed. No referrer traffic, so not from search engines. Gotta be AI scraping the content. All the past week it was mostly China. Today, it’s the USA.
I’m sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and dysfunction is why I like my work. Why things…
Last spring, I resurrected my https://www.inoreader.com/ account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I’m not likely to track what’s happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious death and police soliciting for more information.…
Since it is cybersecurity awareness month, I’m thinking more about how secure things are not. Big companies I expect capable of well resourcing their teams get breached. They are giant whales, so the Ahab threat actors really want to take them. The awareness stuff is all the same stuff with a twist: Be careful. Over…