Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills
Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...
Wrapping up 2018, a year of big changes
On January 16th I will depart for Seattle, where I will be working for Amazon Web Services starting on the 21st....
Why do I have a BA in Computer Science?
The fact that I had a BA in computer science rather than a BS seemed to be a real stickler for the hiring manager....
The horrors of open source!
It's possible to simplify the "normal" things for normal users while still providing source code and repositories that allow us strange creatures to continue experimenting,...