Speaking at SQL Saturday South Florida 2023

I have never been to the South Florida SQL Saturday. There have been a bunch of events, but for some reason I’ve never been to one. I was excited...

Watashiato

Steve learns a few new words, and reflects on life and the impact we have on others.

The MI Startup Time

The Problems with Gods

An account with unlimited privileges is potentially an issue.

AI Experiments–Who am I and how am I remembered?

I saw someone noting that AIs shouldn’t write obituaries. Since I maintain sqlmemorial.org, I wanted to see what would happen for me. This is part of a series of...

Finding Your Own Career

Learning to find the career that's important to you can be a challenge. Today Steve has some advice.

Leveling Up for Sales and Marketing

I’m heading to Austin today for Redgate’s internal Level Up conference. This is designed to help employees improve their skills in some way. The original ones focused on technology...

Refreshing Modules

A New Word: Vemödalen

vemoödalen – the fear that originality is no longer possible I used to worry about this, and often I thought that I’d run out of original things to do....

Experiments with GitHub CoPilot

There has been a lot of attention given to ChatGPT and AI over the last month or two. I’ve tried a few things with the public interface at Open.ai....