Business tools have come a long way in the last 10 years. I went from 0 to a fully functioning website selling products in 5 hours for $0.
What the hell is wrong with my phone?
My only phone since 2007 has been an iPhone. Every year or two I upgrade to the latest model. Tired of having to worry about disk space I paid for the 256GB iPhone 7+. The iPhone 7+ has been the absolute worst device I have ever owned. The timeline: Mid-May 2017: My phone restarted on…
A Sea of contractors.
Over the past couple years I've seen a lot of enterprise IT departments. Most of them are filled with contractors. In some of these companies there are only 5 or 10 technical employees. The rest of the people in the IT organization aren’t actually employed by the company. That means that the majority of the…
I’m afraid I’m not as smart as I used to be.
I spent a few minutes this evening going over some old philosophy paper assignments. Looking at them, I can’t believe I was able to write those papers. I almost cannot imagine myself writing those papers. I vaguely remember reading some of the essay pieces but, now, I don’t remember enough to write anything coherent about…
Docs and Spreadsheets
I worked as a middle manager in a large corporation so I've been on the sending and receiving end of emailed spreadsheets and Word docs. Why? Because that's how business was done. I worked in a training organization where we were required to report on training completion numbers. The official training completion report was created…
Let’s talk about OS package management.
This post is quite long so here are some links to the relevant material: Introductions The Rules Where's the Code? Conclusions Introductions On most modern operating systems there is a package manager that does the following: installs, un-installs, updates, and downgrades packages (software). The names vary by operating system as do the command(s) to invoke…
Linux ruined my lunch.
Popped a DVD into the Lenovo (linux box) so I could watch a movie while I ate since both the Mac and additional monitor were already full of stuff. Totem launches asking if I want to play the movie, I click yes. An error pops up saying additional software is required to play this DVD…
Here’s why I like Django better than Pyramid or Rails.
As part of my day job I get to see a lot of different web frameworks. I also get to see all of their dependencies, requirements, and craziness when building stand-alone installers for them. Some of the frameworks I see have a ridiculous amount of dependencies. Django is so delightfully simple to install and run.…
Read more: Here’s why I like Django better than Pyramid or Rails.
Compiling and Installing tmux on SmartOS.
Update: The SmartOS repository starting at 2012Q1 has Tmux1.6 that can be installed by simply running: pkgin in tmux. Here's a link to the documentation on how to upgrade to 2012Q1. Since SmartOS was released I've been meaning to take it for a spin and see if I like it. Over the weekend I used…
Apparently it isn’t elementary.
I started watching the Sherlock TV series sometime last week. Since there are only 3 episodes per season I went through it quite quickly. It was an OK few hours of television but it had the same hole as any other Sherlock TV show, book, and movie. Sherlock does INDUCTIVE reasoning NOT deductive reasoning. So…