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posted: December 30, 2020
tl;dr: The globalist response to globalism’s greatest acute crisis...
posted: December 30, 2020
tl;dr: Tips for preserving savings and what might come next, as the dollar continues its collapse...
posted: December 29, 2020
tl;dr: One of the best short story collections in recent years...
posted: December 27, 2020
tl;dr: The economic, investing, and business worlds look very different if you use our old monetary yardstick...
posted: December 18, 2020
tl;dr: How to maximize your chances of seeing the latest-and-greatest content on the Web...
posted: December 12, 2020
tl;dr: A primer on my favorite, convenient way to pass secrets, onetimesecret.com...
posted: December 6, 2020
tl;dr: It looked to some like a futile attempt to relive the good-old-days, but actually it was just branding...
posted: November 28, 2020
tl;dr: It looked to others like a good trick, but I didn’t actually hire my boss...
posted: November 21, 2020
tl;dr: Final ruminations on the type of company that is the best fit for me...
posted: November 15, 2020
tl;dr: An informative, entertaining history of the key events, people, and companies that made the consumer Internet revolution happen...
posted: November 14, 2020
tl;dr: Ruminations on the type of company that is the best fit for me...
posted: November 7, 2020
tl;dr: Thoughts on Westell’s delisting and its time as a public company...
posted: October 31, 2020
tl;dr: Bad software has been with us forever and will continue to be with us, but why?...
posted: October 24, 2020
tl;dr: Look and sound your best, and be nice to the other videoconference participants, by following these tips...
posted: October 18, 2020
tl;dr: Others are upset when their videoconference has issues and glitches; I’m surprised it works as well as it does...
posted: October 16, 2020
tl;dr: An international financier predicts the collapse of the global monetary system...
posted: October 11, 2020
tl;dr: 7 tips and tricks for solving intermittent software problems...
posted: October 4, 2020
tl;dr: One of the few who predicted and profited from the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble describes and predicts the end of the biggest bubble yet...
posted: October 3, 2020
tl;dr: The third in a series of posts on failures in computer systems and software...
posted: September 26, 2020
tl;dr: Why I advised a client several years ago not to trust WeChat as an identity provider...
posted: September 19, 2020
tl;dr: The second in a series of posts on failures in computer systems and software...
posted: September 13, 2020
tl;dr: The first in a series of posts on failures in computer systems and software...
posted: September 5, 2020
tl;dr: Sometimes async code just overloads downstream servers or a service, causing more problems than it is worth...
posted: August 29, 2020
tl;dr: Avoiding “garbage in, garbage out” is actually harder than you might think...
posted: August 22, 2020
tl;dr: How the simple act of counting records solved a subtle data quality issue...
posted: August 15, 2020
tl;dr: A microeconomics-based example that illustrates how price inflation can happen during a recession...
posted: August 9, 2020
tl;dr: A selection of twenty political essays, for the open-minded and the already-committed...
posted: August 8, 2020
tl;dr: The traditional rules are being violated and the world is upside down, at least for now...
posted: August 1, 2020
tl;dr: A degree has gone from essential to beneficial but not required...
posted: July 26, 2020
tl;dr: The range of choices and paths grows as traditional higher ed retreats...
posted: July 18, 2020
tl;dr: Spend time playing with the data to see what unexpected insights can be gleaned from it...
posted: July 11, 2020
tl;dr: A case study of how software automates aspects of restaurant industry jobs...
posted: July 4, 2020
tl;dr: From Zork to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s mind blowing to see how far we’ve come...
posted: June 30, 2020
tl;dr: A melancholy collection, befitting the times...
posted: June 27, 2020
tl;dr: Has there been inflation? Depends on how you measure it...
posted: June 21, 2020
tl;dr: Since we’re all MMTers now, I decided to learn more about what MMT is...
posted: June 20, 2020
tl;dr: Cheap Trick foretold the U.S.A.’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic over 40 years ago...
posted: June 13, 2020
tl;dr: The Internet is lessening the impact of the pandemic but there are many problems it can’t solve...
posted: June 7, 2020
tl;dr: How badly do you have to fail Econ 101 to buy a negative yield bond?...
posted: May 30, 2020
tl;dr: What a great time to be selling U.S. dollar-denominated bonds!...
posted: May 23, 2020
tl;dr: Both Python and JavaScript allow you to write your program in the paradigm you decide is most appropriate...
posted: May 16, 2020
tl;dr: Both Python and JavaScript provide the superpower of a built-in key-value store data structure...
posted: May 9, 2020
tl;dr: (Python_list == JavaScript_array) is not a bad approximation...
posted: May 2, 2020
tl;dr: The command line isn’t the best way to see branches, so you have to dig deeper...
posted: April 25, 2020
tl;dr: More FAQs...
posted: April 17, 2020
tl;dr: FAQs...
posted: April 11, 2020
tl;dr: The hardest part of Westell’s decision to move manufacturing to China was giving up the factory jobs...
posted: April 4, 2020
tl;dr: External factors played the major role in Westell’s decision to move manufacturing to China...
posted: March 28, 2020
tl;dr: Fall line skiing, in a beautiful and historic setting, make Sun Valley well worth the trip...
posted: March 21, 2020
tl;dr: Even a genius is no match for a black swan...
posted: March 21, 2020
tl;dr: A collection of the best posts by the latter 20th century’s most popular blogger...
posted: March 14, 2020
tl;dr: Sloan Park is what the Cubs should have done in Chicago with Wrigley Field...
posted: March 7, 2020
tl;dr: Data visualization tools can solve one of the problems with spreadsheets, namely stale data...
posted: February 29, 2020
tl;dr: Dynamic typing if you dare, static typing if you must...
posted: February 22, 2020
tl;dr: Life is easier if you can treat any object like a duck if it quacks like a duck...
posted: February 22, 2020
tl;dr: Guest editor Roxane Gay achieves her aim by serving up twenty political short stories...
posted: February 15, 2020
tl;dr: One of the criticisms of both Python and JavaScript is that they are unsuitable for significant applications...
posted: February 8, 2020
tl;dr: Generators are great, if used judiciously...
posted: February 1, 2020
tl;dr: It’s hard to see the White Sox staying in Chicago through the upcoming changes to the franchise...
posted: January 25, 2020
tl;dr: The similarities and differences between jigsaw puzzles and software development...
posted: January 16, 2020
tl;dr: Timing is everything: Oresis was just another casualty of the bubble bursting...
posted: January 10, 2020
tl;dr: The good times continued, for a while...
posted: January 6, 2020
tl;dr: Heavy on art criticism pieces, but still a generous serving of brain food...
posted: January 4, 2020
tl;dr: It was the best of times, in the beginning...