Those are great, thanks.

WOW, Steve, I didn't realize that the world is moving in a direction like this. I trust you when you say people (companies) are adopting multiple database platforms that...

WOW, Steve, I didn't realize that the world is moving in a direction like this. I trust you when you say people (companies) are adopting multiple database platforms that...

What I would like AI to do in my workplace, is impossible for AI to do. I work in state government. Managers in state government seem to have the...

I don't want AI to help me with work. I want AI/robots to do the tedious things around my house. Pick up the plethora of dirty dishes out of...

I would love an AI agent to fill in timesheets. It is an onerous task at best. My role requires me to be spread across many projects and duties....

This is great:

Few systems = pools of expertise, pockets of ignorance

Many systems = pockets of expertise, pools of ignorance

I'm torn on my team. Was hanging with my wife and couldn't watch. Decent set of people, but also 2 NE, 2 NO, 2 CLE, a few other dup teams.

Fingers...

quite time begets quiet time. I like that.

Certainly a good time for experiments, growth, and improvement.

One repo. Not separate for prod/qa/dev. You version, so you flow the code through versions/branches, not folders.

For SSRS, these are XML. For PowerBI, you can enable the dev format that's...

DORA has nothing to do with bad product design. Those are separate things. In the past, we've had engineers act as product managers, and build things they imagine users will...

You need a new job. There are always Luddites and those who want to stick with what they know and are comfortable with. It's not wrong, but it can be...

I don't either. I use a service to check submissions for articles for LLM type things. There are some signs, but sometimes it's hard.

And sometimes the LLM stuff reads pretty...

Glad it worked. I assume a Norton update?

I find more and more people changing datatypes. I think I might need to adjust my "Zero downtime" talk to include that.

I may ...

have been talking about such things for a couple years now, inertia has kept it from moving at more than a snails pace. Maybe by the time...