Moving WordPress (2) – AWS setup
The AWS setup was the easy part. That should have been no surprise, as I've spent lots of time with AWS but very little time...
Moving WordPress (1) – what I wanted to do
This is the first part of my writeup of everything I did to move my site from one EC2 instance to another, and make a...
The Status of Status
Last week I presented some of my thoughts about status reporting to the Vancouver Software Development Managers. What do you think?...
People, Process, Product, Customer, and how people fit in organizations
My best work has been in places that are process-customer, but I've done well in process-product as well. I have not done well in people-dominated...
In praise of simple tools
I write using Emacs and LaTeX. I'll grudgingly copy and paste to other formats because the organization demands it but I do better work with...
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...
Rosh Hashana (New Year) Update
It's been a busy year with a lot of changes, both Covid-related and otherwise. As is my custom, here's my update for this circle around...
How I got hired at AWS
Being yourself matters as much as anything.
And be nice to the airline staff. They can really make or break your life....
What the fuck are you doing there?
"Hey man. You're not gonna believe this, but I'm calling from Frankfurt..."
"What the FUCK are you doing there?"
It was a pretty good question....
No Undoing
The joy of photography for me was never in the finished product, and certainly not the moment of capturing the image on film. The joy...