Thinking about the people of Stow, MA during this difficult time. WBZ NewsRadio

I've never kept it a secret that I'm not a fan of TDD. I believe in prototype driven development (PDD) with a focus on data driven design (DDD) I believe the general engineering cycle should be prototype, solidify, refactor, test, minimize, reduce, and simplify in that order.

The three -ates, plus seven more.

the album DISCIPLINE is 41 years old today. Absolutely touchstone in rock history dgmlive.com/news/disciplin…

This whole thread is on target.

It took a little time, but fall in Vermont finally broke through. Here's a recent bird's-eye-view from VT Route 58 at Hazen's Notch.

Some insight into my #diabetes as I head into #msignite day 2 and change my insulin pump tiktok.com/t/ZTRu3q1FF/ #t1d

Instead of crawling all objects within a bucket, Glue now supports incremental crawling. This can save real money! 💸 1️⃣ Crawler starts periodically (e.g., once a day) 2️⃣ Crawler fetches event notifications from SQS 3️⃣ Crawler only scans through modified S3 objects

"Low performers" often become high performers when they move to another team. The team matters. A lot.

Sad news: Frederick Brooks, the famed computer architect who designed OS/360, died Thursday. A true icon, who won the Turing Award in 2000, Brooks was one of the great thinkers in computing. Industry tributes are pouring in the celebration of his contribution and life.

This mountain peak app is kind of fun: peakfinder.org/?lat=48.52901&…

Well, that didn't work out how I had hoped.

But at least I get to keep this fancy laptop.

For anyone else who was looking for a side-by-side comparison of the Barbie trailer with 2001: A Space Odyssey, here ya go!

This is the model of the alien Mother Ship used in the filming of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." The ship was conceived by director Steven Spielberg and was made by a team lead by Gregory Jein. It is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center. #ScienceFictionDay

Where does that highway go to?

Babashka Babooka: Write Command Line Clojure braveclojure.com/quests/babooka/ Babashka is a Clojure scripting runtime created by (λ. borkdude) 🌱, and this guide will show you how to get productive with it! Includes links to free PDF and epub downloads Enjoy! 🎉

One week left of my (unplanned) sabbatical, and then on to the next thing... I have a good feeling about this one.