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The stack is to deep. Nothing is easy anymore. The technology count is staggering. I'm close to retirement. I'm looking forward to pursuing my personal programming interests while …

True. Northern Ontario here. I was born and raised in Toronto, where a damp -10C + moderate windchill feels orders of magnitude colder than dry -40 and no windchill. The coldest I'…

Mr. Buffet pledged 80% of estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with many, many other wealthy people for the betterment of mankind. By all accounts, The Gates Foun…

Granted, I live 'up north' but it still gets hot in my new house. I mounted some exhaust fans in the ceiling to pull the hot air from where it naturally rises too. Combined with th…

Nice to read an article from somebody local, or nearly so, to me. I remember the outage well, I worked at a major telecommunications company with reserve generators. I really didn'…

If I had a gray beard... 30+ years as working dev. I've never taken a 'computer class' while in school, although I've taken some instruction while working. Entirely self-taught. I …

30+ year programmer here. This is absolutely true. Some days you cause more damage then progress, forcing you to spend still more time correcting it. My supervisors understand that…

Agreed, I combined this with Cloudflare's DNS service (1.1.1.1). A great combo.

I recently had to update 3 db machines with the updated schemas from one, and the data from a third. Then copy the finished version over to the first and finally the third. Turns o…

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.

Calvin and Hobbes has been the standard by which other comics are judged by me. That being said Hobbes: Look at the stars! Its as if the universe goes on forever and ever! Calvin: …

Reminds me a lot of PT Barnums article on Money written in 1880. A lot is still applicable today. https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/

Nothing is easy anymore. The stacks are so deep with millions of lines of code. When it works, its amazing. But it seems not much just 'works' anymore. Compared to the 80-90's. You…

#1 Red flag discoverable during your interview. Ask if this is a new position or refilling and existing position. With some discovery, you'll find if the churn rate on the job offe…

I was in the same boat. Now, one of my Pi's is running PiHole and I couldn't be happier with it.

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I'll be traveling from Ontario to Yosemite and back this summer in my Tacoma. I have exactly the same setup. It works. I've been deeply interested in going nomadic full time for mo…

The only way to win the game is not to play.

The trick is not look for work in a startup/dev environment, but in the institutional and corporate environment. Their are jobs and the payscale you desire, just not in the quantit…

I moved from Toronto decades ago. Since then I've rejected offers constantly because, quite frankly, IMO, Toronto is a hole. I now find myself living north of Toronto, with limited…

A nested if statement approximately 75 levels deep all because the author didn't understand that an ID can be unique. So he manually checked the value (which meant it could never b…

I just inherited a .Net core app that was a proof of concept. It's a real pot luck of glued together functionality. I remember working in MS ASP land almost 2 decades ago and I swo…

Living in Northern Ontario, I'm no stranger to Poutine. All sorts of places are popping up selling 'flavoured' poutines. Nothing beats the original. In fact, the best poutine is fo…

Beautiful. I recently had to implement two way auth over 1.2 and this would have saved much hair pulling. (and who does TWO way auth over an MPLS connection. Turns out, us).