Perhaps the most annoying this about being a competent software engineer/architect seeing a problem and knowing how to fix it, is to NOT be in a position where you can actually apply those skills b/c someone else is responsible for making it better and they won't or can't.

President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

I can no longer use the word trump in its normal verb form because the commonly understood word is now the very opposite of the original definition "to say or do something better"

The clock in my guest room never had its battery replaced when we moved it. I'm temporarily working out of that room while my office is remodeled so I fixed it. It clicks loudly. I just took the battery out.

I am not sorry that I'm sorry. I would have been sorry if I had been not sorry.

Is MVX a FHIR CodingSystem or an IdentifierSystem dlvr.it/TB9jZ0

Is MVX a FHIR CodingSystem or an IdentifierSystem ift.tt/oy796RE

SwiftOnSecurity Patch Tuesday is the mind-killer. It is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face Patch Tuesday. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where Patch Tuesday has gone there will be

Hit the trifecta today: 1. New CVE submitted between base image build and final image build. 2. Release yesterday of broken testing tool means tests cannot even be run. 3. Finally, one external component that I rely on for testing is down.

Happy Friday. I wish I were OOO, but today I am simply Out-Of-Brain.

Today's software release intermission is brought to you by David Bowie Official youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4…

Skynet becomes self-aware today

I accidentally asked for "nonsense summary" instead of a "no-nonsense summary" of an HL7 project proposal. I kinda love what a trigram deletion can do to an otherwise sober request. For those who speak HL7, "Domain Analysis Model" -> " magical flowchart" ;-)

Junior folks sometimes get into a demoralized headspace where Seniors seem like our knowledge/ability to spot a solution is magic. It’s not, we’ve just seen that before. Further: we’ve broken that before.

As a programmer, my entire life has been spent getting paid a lot of money to do things I would do for free anyway and hoping no one figures it out.

All across the world we talk about interoperability. There are lots of initiatives trying to ‘solve’ it. But we are still scratching the surface. htn.international/interview-kuma… #digitaltransformation #digitalhealth #healthIT #ai #fhir #HITsmIND #ndhm #india #fhirindia

I am absolutely cackling right now. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rednecks