Are Google and Intuit at odds with each other right now? I discovered today that my "transient" network issues with QuickBooks were because Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server can't resolve intuit.com. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.3 servers can resolve it just fine.

This does look pretty cool... but why? Encapsulation is a core piece of OOP

While researching this, my coworker made a fun puzzle. Imagine that a passenger of the Titanic listed their birthdate as 2/29/00. How old was this passenger when the ship sank?

I always hated UML diagrams in college. I could write the code much faster than I could map it out in the verbose diagramming language. Today, I asked a member of my team to deliver a UML diagram because it was the easiest was to capture the relationships between data types.

In EQ2, we usually share information and writeups through a public wiki. This month, we distributed the info as RTF and XLS documents. Half my friends couldn't find them, and the other half couldn't open them. There's probably a lesson about consistent UX here.

What have I got to lose?

Would tools like these help keep the diagrams updated? Or is it just another way to write and store the diagrams? Top 6 Tools to Turn Diagrams into Beautiful Code youtu.be/jCd6XfWLZsg?si… via YouTube

Why is shopping for a car so painful? Why can't i easily compare features and prices? Even searching multiple models at the same dealership is tough because the salesmen push you to buy the first car you touch. They become downright hostile if you mention another brand.

I love heading up after work for some "night" skiing

At multiple companies, with multiple CI/CD products, I've hit the 260 character path limit imposed by Windows. Each time, it has taken me multiple days to diagnose and fix. Why do I have to relearn this lesson every year?

FluentAssertions is switching to a paid license in v8. I just got my team using it, and change does not come easy to us. I get that developers need to support themselves, but $130/dev/year is really steep. I don't want to rewrite all of my tests, but I can't justify that cost.

Recently, I started learning C development and the various build tools and IDEs available for that. I'm not sure which I find more annoying: trying to learn vim bindings, or trying to ignore the fake squigglies in VS Code.