I've got just over 6 years before I reach retirement age.

I've friends and relatives who are a similar age but have already retired. My father retired in his late 50s...

The 1st time I used linting and formatting on a legacy project it found a lot of violations, many couldn't be fixed automatically. SQLFluff found stuff that would have caused...

I think the security arms race has got a damn sight hotter.  I feel that people are looking at only 2 perspectives on security patches when there is a 3rd.

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I think I've had 1 job as a result of interacting with LinkedIn. All the rest have been applying for advertised positions or being recommended by ex-colleagues.

Of the ones I...

I have some big concerns with AI usage and skills adoption. There have always been advances that have made technical skills all but obsolete. One of this site's founders posted...

I am too, but as I thought about it, and listened to the idea...

I'm sceptical about how this would work outside of academia.  By that, I mean that deadlines seriously curtail the time we would like to build things properly, much less design. ...

My experience is that if you fail to communicate then the powers that be extrapolate to fill in the gaps.

And people think AI hallucinations are a new thing!

If you have...

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I spoke to a senior IT manager who told me that it was easier to hire a senior engineer than it was to fight the bureaucracy to promote an internal...

I know exactly where you come from, and thank God you said it.

The positivity of youth: "Good news, Dad, your airbag works"!  They know that if they scratch the car,...

It should be simpler to correct security mistakes, and it should be way easier to get fixes prioritised before a hostile actor finds the vulnerability.  Deal with the threat while...

My take is that the creators of these tools don't fully understand what they have built, so how the hell are the rest of us supposed to?

If these breaches take...

Of the developers I have known, the best of them have hobbies outside of work that involve creating things.

I love both the problem-solving and building aspects of what I do. ...

I'm surprised that JIRA still does not allow more than one person to be assigned a ticket.  Where I work we frequently pair up to work on a ticket.

I'm finding...

Time makes more converts than reason.

I think you have to be older to appreciate the truth in that Thomas Paine quote.  That is in the same vein as

A child doesn’t...