Double down Friday! Another good article about learning Vim in 4 weeks…not saying I -will-, just saying you -can-.

If you are so inclined to be a vim uber like James LaChance ;). https://medium.com/@peterxjang/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85

When you think you have it rough…this person learned programming, solo, in rural Uruguay.

Sometime we take the most basic of things for granted. Stable dependable internet, phone system, traffic control, having more than 50cents a day for food.…

Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)

I’ve always had a soft spot for visualizations. Info-graphics, animations, the the like. One specific tool I came across years back is Gource. Finally got…

CoreOS; web security and privacy.

Alex Polvi over at CoreOS put out a short, but poignant article about not only why CoreOS was started, but why they care about privacy and…

Thus writer just made it to my `must read` list. Everything they state is spot on and to the point.

Eric Elliott wrote on Medium about the fear of change and how to build high velocity development teams. If you read nothing else this week.…

Economy of Scale: when big is a waste.

Some short musings. I was thinking about why larger organizations tend to be less ‘agile’ or ‘nimble’ than smaller organizations. Even though larger organizations are…

Hackathons…an honest opinion.

When taken as a hole a hackathon is a marketing, networking, and possibly hiring event. Engineers and developers of all levels attend with the award of getting…

Is the argument of ‘application portability’ a valid one for containerization?

Preface: I am a huge supporter of containerized distributed applications. It give me all sorts of nerd good feelings. One of the biggest arguments for…

Another month, another set of continuing education courses.

A corner stone of the IT/Dev career field is this: ‘never stop learning’. I like to expand on it and include ‘When you stop learning,…

Stack Overflow Community Elections.

Quick update here, Stack Overflow (SO) is currently in its annual election cycle. Help the community that helps you exit vim.