Author Archives: Jim Ruehlin

If you’re in the tech industry, please take a look at the neveragain.tech petition  and consider adding your signature. It’s simply a pledge not to use our high-tech skills to repress or harass immigrants or members of any religion. I … Continue reading →

IoT Continuous Engineering: Pitfalls and Solutions for Agile and Systems Developers. Continue reading →

A quick evaluation of the value of the open source OpenWhisk versus other offerings. OpenWhisk is in beta, and it’s a way to rapidly execute microservices in a “serverless” configuration. It’s cheaper than classic cloud offerings and supposedly scales well.

Well, except for all that spaceflight and planetary exploration stuff. But this is pretty cool too. They’re great retro posters of “spaceflight tourism” that highlights discoveries made by NASA and other astronomical researchers.

I just came across the article ‘Syndromes’ Drive Coders Crazy – Business Insider. Interesting article about fear and dissatisfaction among high tech people based on the notion that as individuals we’re not good enough, and that “real programmers” do it for … Continue reading →

Mostly we think that avoiding bugs is the result of a good brain. If there’s a bug, some programmer missed something. That’s certainly one source of bugs. But in my experience many, if not most bugs can also be traced … Continue reading →

Juliet said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare was arguing (through Juliet’s dialog) that the names of things don’t matter. What matters is what a thing “is”. And what if someone points to a daisy and … Continue reading →