It’s a genuine pet peeve of mine to hear the phrase, “Make time!” As in: My whole life, I have been busy. I have absolutely […]
MongoDB: The ObjectId trap
Back in June I dropped this article: https://obscureproblemsandgotchas.com/development/things-to-know-before-using-mongodb/ and it got excellent reception. I was pleased to hear from colleagues of mine that they read […]
Easing into trading
I have had an interest in trading stock since I was a kid. I hate that I am aging myself by saying the following sentence, […]
Grounding treadmill static charge
This is not something I ever thought I would be writing about, but well here we are. So for several months now I have been […]
Things to know before using MongoDB
I have been working with MongoDB for the past year or so and I feel as if I have earned the right to have an […]
Microsoft is screwing its base again
I thought Microsoft learned their lesson with Vista, Windows 8 and the failed Windows phone; but here we are again. I love Microsoft because I […]
The inherent disrespect of software developers
I have been wanting to write about this for a long time now. I have seventeen years of professional software development experience at the time […]
Installing Lua for development on Windows
These instructions may not be accurate in the future, so just know this was written on 05/19/2024. Rant you can skip Windows is largely an […]
WPF project won’t start after upgrade from full framework to dot net core
This problem turned into a horrible time suck for me, so I really wanted to document what happened and how to resolve it because this […]
Just call it Twitter
I’m not sure why it’s so hard for people to just call it Twitter. Elon is a clown 🤡 who is obsessed with a letter. […]