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I jumped to MD in 1997 because I was still using cassette for mobile music consumption. Because of the media size, there wasn't a pocketable portable CD player, and skipping was a …

Because if they had a choice of paying someone to answer questions for free or paying them to develop features that generate revenue, which one do you think they pick? Yes, there's…

In about 2002, I had a Handspring Visor Prism, running PalmOS. I bought the VisorPhone, which was a cellular phone add-on that plugged into the back. It was somewhat ungainly, and …

Interesting - I'm curious if the small labels doing releases are using recordable magneto-optical MDs. (I'm assuming so.) In its heyday, there were a limited number of prerecorded …

Gopher was a pretty brief blip in my career, but I remember being insanely excited about it for about three months of 1991. Apple's OpenDoc was a pretty neat idea, until I actually…

Seldom, except when we on-boarded new people. This was mostly to counter when the folks on one continent would feel left out when folks on another continent were given custom train…

Look up the history of FM broadcast automation for more on how this worked - it's fascinating. Starting in the 60s, companies like Drake-Chenault started implementing these Rube Go…

I'm a manager. (Sorry.) I do a weekly Friday "Ask me anything" on Zoom that's basically a free-form training session where people reporting to me (or other teams are fine, too) ask…

NASA first addressed this during the Skylab training. They sent two of each crew to a 14-day crash course at an Air Force dental clinic, where they took volunteers and started pull…

I've had two (Japanese models) sitting on my desk since maybe 2015 without drying out.

What about a list of open-source projects in the Ukraine to support? Of course I'd chip in a few bucks to sponsor companies on GitHub. But I can imagine there are enterprise compan…

In case anyone's curious about California's law on this: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... This was changed in 2019. Employers must provide a salary b…

Spent ten years at a Vista company that I won't name, half before acquisition and half after, and all of this pretty much tracks. (Maybe not the security guard part, but I can conf…

It's just a job. If you don't believe that, or thing that sounds petty or stupid, ask yourself why. Do you feel like you need the job to survive financially? Work on that. Go read …

It's also worth noting that Wind River purchased Integrated Systems almost entirely so they could kill off pSOS and drive customers to using their competing VxWorks RTOS. I wouldn'…

Wind River just got bought by Aptiv, like literally a week ago.

Markdown, Gatsby. Source is in GitHub, GHA builds the HTML output, then schleps it over to an S3 bucket. I inherited this setup. Works great from my end, but we've got an engineeri…

The first one I encountered from that same era was Interface Builder, on the NeXT. And it turns out it's still around, as part of XCode on the Mac.

Picked up one of these as a kid at a garage sale for a buck, mostly to take it apart and see how it worked. Internally, it was a board with maybe a dozen daughter boards, each a ve…

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