“Well, we’re nearly there! So, how are you feeling about it? It being your first case and all.” “No bad, not bad. I’ve read some of their literature. I think there’s some things that we can use there, definitely! Yeah, so… so maybe I’m actually pretty optimistic!” Her superior’s smile was thin and wane. “Great. … Continue reading @Compi do they still dance on Zintia?| Professor Beth Singler
How many times have you witnessed vehicular manslaughter in your entire life? Never mind how often; the fact that you know the term means you've seen it—on T...| Factory Garden 🏭🌳
Caleb racked his brain trying to come up with the right dynamic programming recurrence for this medium LeetCode problem. He’d never used DP at work. In fact, he didn’t believe anyone had. So why did companies keep asking them? It wasn’t like it mattered anyway, since he couldn’t even get past the resume screening. It […]| Axol's Blog
Caleb published his pull request. It had been Steve’s idea to wait until the last day of the sprint before doing so. As he put it, “Such pressure causes standards to buckle.” In t…| Axol's Blog
Preface As mentioned in my maiden effort to compose and publish my first play five years ago, I recently made the most unexpected discovery of some long-forgotten, more-than-three-decades-old files…| Lam Pin Foo
“Have you ever pondered how user privileges are stored?” Steve asked. “In our PostgreSQL database, obviously. It’s the only one we have.” Caleb responded nonchalantly, wishing the company had licensed a NoSQL database as well. “How. Not where.” Caleb hadn’t the faintest clue. He’d never ventured outside the schema holding the tables of the greenfield […]| Axol's Blog
Caleb’s senior engineer coworker, Greg, gave his standup update, “So umm yeah, yesterday I spent like an hour updating my JIRA tickets, and I had to pick up my daughter from school. Tha…| Axol's Blog
Steve Miller’s calendar had been filled up to the next two weeks. The sprint would be over by then, and Caleb would take the blame for failing his task. He had to come up with something quick. Maybe ambush Steve with a Teams call the second his status turned green in between meetings. It was […]| Axol's Blog
As longtime readers of this blog might be aware, I’ve long been skeptical of machine learning and its so-called “intelligence”. The AI industry, aided by clueless futurists and gr…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
TENacity Brilliant Flash Fiction 10th Anniversary Anthology Congratulations to the 42 writers whose stories will appear in our upcoming anthology. Stories were selected by our editors from 472 subm…| BRILLIANT FLASH FICTION
Almost as if Nature can read calendars and numbers, the 1st of May in Glasgow this year seemed to herald a distinct rise in temperature and the opening of numerous leaves and a rain of blossom. It …| Douglas Thompson's Blog
This month we feature the winners of our Pop-Up Writing Contest, who submitted stories for the prompts “Melting Icicles” and “Cold Wave.” The winning authors are Cath Barton…| BRILLIANT FLASH FICTION