Category: work

  • Impossible Solutions

    Impossible Solutions

    Whatever unexpected outcomes may occur, you have to admire the creativity and commitment.

  • Now We’re Talking

    Now We’re Talking

    Truly, the SkyNet days feel nearly upon us.

  • Cool Office

    Cool Office

    Paradoxically the office is often even colder during the summer.

  • One Hundred Lines

    One Hundred Lines

    Sure, you could write a simple 100-line program to do a lot of things where everything is acting the way you expect it to act. And then someone will breathe near it and suddenly nothing is working anymore and you… have to add some more lines of code.

  • What’s In A Name?

    What’s In A Name?

    Just think of all the cool internal code names we’ve never even heard! And how many official release names were a downgrade!

  • Cake Dealer

    Cake Dealer

    Please think of my attempts to push cake as that of a friend enabling you to indulge every so often and appreciate the little joys in life and definitely not that I’m attempting to undermine your life choices.

  • We Still Can’t

    We Still Can’t

    I will admit, there were moments where it felt like: are they hoping we’ll give up so that they don’t have to tell us that they don’t have the data? But good news: the data exists, just in a less handy format for now! Related: The Only Way

  • Popular New Option

    Popular New Option

    It is complicated. Let us be glad someone else is thinking through these things to make sure they make sense.

  • So Bad It’s Good

    So Bad It’s Good

    Generally speaking, it seems like if it’s an outside team trying to discourage us, it’s usually fine. If it’s also someone inside the team, maybe take it more seriously.

  • Tempting Fate

    Tempting Fate

    I’m not superstitious. You’re superstitious.