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For those of you just tuning in, this is part of my ongoing journey of migrating to SF to work for Twitter. The lessons contained herein are a direct result of my coming to the area pretty much blind and paying the various prices for doing so.
This week I’m working on getting Jaunt’s 1.9.0 release nearer the door, on which note I’m happy to properly demo one the features of this first release: deprecation warnings.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may be aware of my recent travails with a bogeyman I’ve named only as “XML”. Having banged my head against this abomination of software for several days, it’s venting time so buckle in for the ride.
I’m an a diehard Fallout franchise fan. While school currently precludes me from playing, I took some time to automate solving the hacking minigame which is used to unlock computer terminals and secured areas in-game.
This post was originally authored for the UTCS Facebook group, in the context of discussing the role of formalism in software “engineering” as regards this article from BuisnessInsider arguing that “The title “engineer” is cheapened by the tech industry.”
Software versioning and managing software dependencies is hard. Unfortunately it is also an unavoidable problem. Rarely do we build software in isolation from the rest of the world. Hoping to stand on the shoulders rather than the toes of giants, we build software which depends upon other software. We make use of libraries; we make assumptions about platforms and run times.
It’s been a while since I’ve written about hardware proper rather than just lisp machine weirdness, but I’m doing research reading in computer architecture this semester so that’s gotta change.
Those of you who, like me, don’t read all the news may be vaguely aware that Gittip has rebranded to Gratipay of late, and then shut down for some time. As a former gittip customer/user this was visible to me only in that the weekly stream of tips disappeared.