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...

Lessons from the top of a snowy hill

Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...

How I became “glue”

As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...

Software is hard

A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...

Wrapping up 2019

In January, I packed up and shipped everything I wanted to keep, got in the car with Flash, and drove to Seattle. I arrived...

SCE to AUX

DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....

Well, that took a while

When I wrapped up 2018 just ahead of my move, I had a notion that it might be a while before I posted again. I...