We need a third app. While I thought it would be nice to use the other two by themselves, I got looking into the soon to be extinct Android platform and, we need something simpler to verify cross compilation works before jumping into either of those. Why? PostgreSQL only runs under this command line utility, going to jump through hoops trying to access it from a GUI app. The 2-in-1 doesn’t provide a serial port … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 12Read more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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Script Kiddies and the Catastrophes They Cause
This is yet another installment of “Move Quickly and Turn Worthless Shit Into Production.” When you come up through real software development, not this worthless script kiddie shit being touted as great, but real software development, you understand there is a method to the madness. You have to do all of that documentation up front so there are procedures and rules in place the QA team can use to verify everything using tests which do … Script Kiddies and the Catastrophes They CauseRead more
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The getkey Trap
This topic came up on my Jed mailing list the other day and, once again, I got in touch with my inner Bill. Your inner Bill? Yes, that cranky old man who isn’t putting up with the world around him and wants it to be his way. The older you get the easier it is to find your “inner Bill.” In this case it fits because I have lived this death at least a hundred … The getkey TrapRead more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7
Originally I did a stupid thing. It was so stupid I made it the featured image for this post. I used the install/remove applications menu option to install postgresql and postgresql-contrib. Finding postgresql was like finding a needle in a haystack after using the search. The software manager for the Raspberry Pi doesn’t order by package name nor does it display that first. It displays the one-line human friendly description first and has a sort … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7Read more
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The Gender Fluid IT Crisis
Most everyone reading this is familiar with the Y2K crisis where lots of computer systems simply weren’t going to work after December 31, 1999. Many conspiracy theorists believe it was a scam to earn more money and that there never was a crisis. The theorists are wrong. IT workers put in millions and millions of hours fixing things incompetent management was too greedy to fix. They were all too busy laying off workers they needed … The Gender Fluid IT CrisisRead more