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I am afraid that more and more people are following the outline of agile without understanding WHY the practices are important. It’s becoming a sort of cargo cult science situation.

I’ve been working on writing PEG expressions with Rosie Pattern Language to help people to search Elixir code bases for certain things. Very preliminary but I did want to share what I’ve got so far.

I suppose I will sound like a luddite but so far I’ve found AI to be more of a hindrance than a help! I’ll explain why.

A few people when discussing side work by developers trot out the argument “No one asks a surgeon if he or she does side work!” This argument is flawed in a few major ways.

I’ve started a newsletter called “The Impractical Engineer”. I hope you’ll give it a look!

Extending my use of racket to allow my shell scripts to be parameterized.

Elon Musk and the other DOGE folks might learn a lesson from history. Sometimes it’s smarter to ask the natives rather than assuming they have nothing intelligent to say.

I decided to give Codeberg a whirl. I also decided to create a binary tree implementation in Rust to practice my Rust skills a bit.

It’s sometimes helpful to people to have an analogy to help understand the magnitude of something. That is, to get an idea of how much money one is discussing sometimes authors will refer to a line of dollar bills laid end to end and how many times it’d circle the earth at the equator. In that spirit we’d like to give some helpful approximations of the number of various kinds of technical people there are in the world to help people get a grasp of the magnitude.

Due to the inability of a previously invited speaker to attend, I’m filling in at MITechCon for a session.