Gold, Fax Machines, Sliced Bread, and Other Things America Once Treated Like Trouble
Gold, sliced bread, pinball, fax machines – America has outlawed some wildly normal things. The reasons get even stranger when…
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Hydrogen Engines: The Combustion Engine Found a New Fuel and Refused to Retire
Hydrogen engines keep the pistons, ditch the gasoline, and raise one awkward question: are they brilliant, inefficient, or both…
Where Do June and July Get Their Names? Or, The Calendar Got Weird Again
June and July sound simple until Rome walks in with gods, emperors, and calendar paperwork that somehow still…
An Earnest Entreaty To Watch The Road Before My Rearview Mirror Develops Trust Issues
I saw a driver behind me looking down at a red light, and suddenly my rearview mirror developed trust issues…
Flying Cars: The Future That Keeps Circling the Airport
We were promised flying cars decades ago, so why are we still sitting in traffic like obedient little ground mammals…
How to Recover From a Water Leak Without Getting Hosed by the Insurance
Your house leaked, the floor is still wet, and the adjuster says it is fine. Here is how not to get hosed…
I Finally Killed the Cat
I deleted the cat videos that tanked my views, but the algorithm still looks mad and now I have questions…
TL;DR, Or How I Misread The Internet For Several Decades Like A Confident Raccoon With Wi-Fi
I thought TL;DR meant the exact opposite for years, and somehow the internet let me keep walking around like that…
CMMI Level 5 vs. FAANG: One Dream Wore a Process Manual, the Other Arrived with Free Sushi
Once engineers chased perfect process. Now they chase prestige and scale. Which dream actually makes better work, and which one just…
LSP / LSIF: What They Are, Why You Should Care, and Why Your Editor Has Been Secretly Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting
LSP and LSIF quietly run modern code intelligence, and once you see what they are doing behind the curtain, you start noticing…