Having problems with your team being late to the daily stand-up? Try this!| ./techtipsy
Pelted by nuts on our morning walk… Walking between trees this morning, I was aware of the thuds of missiles dropping around us. Some were falling worryingly close to us. In the same way that trees are sacrificing whole branches to improve survival rates for what’s left, they are now shedding nuts and leaves early … Continue reading Squirrels getting their own back?| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Unexpected plants in my garden At the start of the growing season, I sprinkled tomato seeds from a packet over my seed tray, positioned it in the conservatory and watered. All that appeared – eventually – were two unrecognised plants which are nothing like any tomatoes I’ve ever seen (and – needless to say – … Continue reading Random Seedlings| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Filtering profanities is ducking hard.| ./techtipsy
It's no mystery that I love me a good food pun... if you follow me on Instagram or if you read this blog with any regularity that fact is glaringly obvious. At this point I have a notebook filled with pages and pages of food puns. It's one of those things I've always thought I| Love and Olive Oil
The above photo is of a recent breakage that hadn’t happened last week, so I’m guessing it’s an example of that ‘summer branch drop’ that TV news bulletins have been warning the UK about. We’re told to beware of apparently healthy trees dropping apparently health boughs due to the lack of rain. One theory is … Continue reading Branch Drop?| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Out of all the technological hype cycles over the last decade, there is one that stands out the most to me.| ./techtipsy
For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum. Using their Explainfile tool to… Read more| Wade Tregaskis
I’m very glad Apple’s Messages team somehow snuck this one little button past the corporate bureaucracy (Apple infamously likes to pretend their software is infallible and therefore doesn’t need things like useful error messages or rectification tools). It’s of course not great that iMessages don’t reliably sync between Apple devices to begin with, but at… Read more| Wade Tregaskis
Consider these two examples involving Flickr, that occurred within just one day of each other. Nice gal Amanda I submitted the following feedback, not really expecting much of it. In fact, I fully expected some useless, boilerplate response that completely ignored the point and directed me to the upload requirements page (despite it being the… Read more| Wade Tregaskis
There's an old interview with the Olsen Twins that lives rent-free in my brain. In it, the girls, who are about five at the time, are being interviewed by Regis and Kathie Lee (remember them?). The interviewers are struggling because the twins aren't your stereotypical precocious stage children. They're shy and awkward, talk into their chests, and don't have anything interesting to say.| Tadaima.
What’s the difference between a flower and a weed? I don’t know if there’s a definitive test, but I have some criteria of my own. When I break the stalk off a flower in my garden, it will refuse to flower again, and probably die.When I pull all the visible leaves and stalks off a … Continue reading Flower or Weed?| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Add that to the list of reasons to avoid Hibernate.| ./techtipsy
I got a great question on my Itch page today, and it got me thinking quite a bit about why I built the game I did, and what I learned along the way!| Shadow & Fae
I am currently recovering at home from a total replacement of my right hip, which has been getting more painful since December 2022. (Not sure why, as they are apparently both arthritic but the left hip, so far, feels okay.) My operation was last Saturday; I came home on Monday. Today, Thursday, was day five … Continue reading Getting my life back| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
I hope these idiots had fire extinguishers with them… but I doubt it. During our recent ‘heatwave,’ I’ve passed a few scorched remains of fires, or attempts at bonfires whil…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
On the drive home from work, the deep greens of the roadside ditches are flush with pale orange stars: day lilies, my online search tells me. Herald of summe...| reverie v. reality
For I have known them all already, known them all:| reverie v. reality
I had therapy this afternoon - which I was dreading and wanted more than anything to cancel - and plans with Pepper to grab dinner and a movie, which I am really glad I had set up in advance, because I ended up needing the mood boost to balance out all of the crying. I got into a huge fight with my mom Thursday night. Usually, we call each other in the morning after a fight, but today it was radio silence on both of our ends until late afternoon. I cried the whole drive to my therapy appointm...| reverie v. reality
Another trip at an end. Despite having a moment of panic mid-week where I was like, everything went really well & I'm so, so happy with the entire experienc...| reverie v. reality
Finding things to blog about Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I confess that serialising Jay and Robin saved me much guilt when I couldn’t think of anything to blog about in what has been a cha…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
The female swan was out swimming with the male earlier this week, with no sign of cygnets, despite the earlier nesting. I wondered if their eggs had filed to hatch – or been stolen by wildlif…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Leveraging containers for streamlined remote interactive and mounted file access to intranet machines Background Most academic or corporate networks gate access to internal resources (like clusters or services) via their local intranet, requiring a VPN connection (e.g., using Cisco AnyConnect, FortiGate). Connecting to such a VPN on a personal machine typically routes all your internet traffic through that VPN. This is useful for certain tasks like accessing paywalled journal articles via uni...| Rohit Goswami
The swan is still sitting on her nest, but other birds are already multiplying. The geese and the moorhens are ahead of the ducks and swans. Sadly, my phone isn’t up to the challenge. I shoul…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
“A close and long-term biological interaction, between two organisms of different species.” I’ve been watching pigeons in my garden spilling seed for other pig…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Last night, I dreamt of a movie that doesn’t exist: . The dream comes apart in layers. In the first, I am within the movie, watching the characters pass ...| reverie v. reality
Twitters are spreading… No – not that kind! Word is getting around. I now have two robins visiting daily. this morning, they faced each other under the peanut feeder (I wasn’t qui…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
These appeared last week. The swans are only just thinking about nesting. These are a pair of Egyptian geese that were introduced to the lake. The last pair of ‘different’ ducks that we…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Trout, Fawn, and Pepper[^1] are coming over tonight to celebrate Fawn's birthday. Originally, I'd thought that F&T were going out to dinner with her family, ...| reverie v. reality
I've thought a lot about the performance, cost and power consumption trade-offs of home servers. Maybe too much.| ./techtipsy
Let’s make the charitable assumption that this bag was dropped by mistake and not just left there. This is the forest. It is not a park or a pavement. Squirrels, foxes, possibly badgers depos…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Before living alone, I hadn’t reaised how comforting routine can be. Especially after events that disrupt normality. I enjoy my occasional visits and meetings. Even shopping is a welcome dive…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Is January your longest month? Why does January seem the longest month? In my working years, I decided this was because of the longer gap between December’s payday and January’s –…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
When I was between husbands and before my youngest came back from university, I lived alone for a while. Except for the dogs. There have always been dogs. Yes, I talk to them (who else am I going t…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Think about it … fifteen minutes from now, you could be writing your own blog. Five simple steps will get you there, and I’ll walk you through them. No technical skills required. I’ve really enjoyed doing my own outdoor blog. I’ve equally enjoyed learning from other blogs. It’s this knowledge-sharing that makes our community so […]| Ramblin' Jim
Ever since the Affordable Care Act passed, my health insurance premium has been climbing faster than a Titan rocket, which should have prepared me for this year’s rate jump. It still managed to catch me off guard. To give a little background, before the Affordable Care Act I paid $423/month to insure a family of […]| Ramblin' Jim
Solarpunk walks the middle path between technosolutionism and anarcho-primitivism, so while #bancars has a nice ring to it, I lean more toward using cars where they make sense, but not treating them as the proverbial hammer to the nails of all societal problems like 20th Century urban planners did here in the US. We’ve explored […]| Solarpunk Station
Much as I love Smidgeon and Ruff, dogs have their downside. They expect their morning walk, rain or shine. Still, I need the exercise too and, on this particular day it wasn’t raining. Yet. W…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
(Sorry, but a metric translation just doesn’t sound right.) I am currently trying to fit belongings from two homes into one very small one. Formerly, my practice when I haven’t worn a g…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
All the time we have musical anniversaries but some the fact that the late John Peel died ten years ago today is a poignant one. I’ve stated it many times and will continue to do so that without his shows … Continue reading →| StevoMusicMan – Ramblings Of A Music Man
With all of the attention of the new film ‘Northern Soul‘ directed by Elaine Constantine, the BBC broadcasted an hour-long show on the scene that was and still is Northern Soul. For once the scene grew from strength to strength … Continue reading →| StevoMusicMan – Ramblings Of A Music Man
Fairness is over-rated (in games). Looking at my recent convention gaming, I played some games that can be considered “fair,” but by time (and choice) I mostly played wildly unfair game…| The Tao of Gaming
The best way to hire great women is to have great women at the top of the company. IBM is a lot stronger for employing Pat Selinger for 29 years . She invented the relational database cost-based optimizer, a technology that sees continued use in relational database management systems today. But more than being a great technologist,...| Perspectives
One of the Amazon Operations teams was hosting a conference for Product Managers in their organization and they asked a few of us to record a 1-minute video of what we each view as important attributes of a Product Panager. My take is below with a link to the video.| Perspectives
An 80's Atari kid who witnessed the explosive growth of the internet through a screaming 56k modem... witnessed several manufactured economic boom bust cycles and the birth of bitcoin... a humanitarian, anti-fractional reserve banking... in crypto I trust| hodlr.rocks
The bitcoin vs ripple debate is a great example of the tribalism that gets created in periods of massive innovation, disruption, and societal evolution This is my reply to a series of tweets ending…| hodlr.rocks
d love to see glowforge.com and other laser and 3d printer manufacturers support an open source makers ecommerce network built on blockchain… E.G. If someone created products that became popular…| hodlr.rocks
Frontend web developer, turned engineering manager.| nooshu.com
Frontend web developer, turned engineering manager.| nooshu.com
Quick rant about the state of PC-s in 2021 regarding power and resource usage.| ./techtipsy
Just after joining Amazon Web Services in 2009, I met with Andrew Certain, at that time a senior engineer on the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) team, to get into the details on how EBS was implemented and what plans were looking forward. Andrew took me through the details of this remote block storage solution and two things were immediately clear to me: 1) there was work yet to be done to address the most demanding workloads, and 2) the overall opportunity for EBS was massive. Having...| Perspectives
A recent zero-day vulnerability has been publicly shared revealing a critical issue with the nginx-ldap-auth software package allowing attackers to potentially bypass authentication and disclose ke…| GrimBlog
I introduced the 2022 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering conference on September 21st. The National Academy of Engineering was founded in 1964 is part of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAE operates under the same congressional act of incorporation that established the National Academy of Sciences, signed in 1863 by President Lincoln. Under this charter the NAE is directed “whenever called upon by any department or agency of the go...| Perspectives
