I tried Mastodon out recently, probably much later than I should have, because I was curious and heard it was better than Twitter. The UI was nice, nothing too different from Twitter actually. I can say though that after spending a good 15 minutes on the site that I will…

I just wanted to spin off a quick rant about GDPR-related cookie consent messages, because they’ve gotten out of control. Before starting to write this I captured some examples from a few news websites:

I love learning, not so much in a resume-padding, career-oriented, watch-code-monkey-invert-binary-tree sort of way, but as a personal activity, a “I like knowing things” John Conway-esque sort of way. Learning for your own sake, and not just for your employer’s, is a very important topic that deserves its own article…

I recently had the opportunity to work on a team of Ruby developers. For reasons, the project we were working on was to use .NET, so these developers needed to get up to speed with C# so that they could begin cranking out code. It was an interesting experience for…

I’ll start off by saying that I’m a big fan of C#. It’s the language I recommend for new projects, it’s what I recommend to budding programmers, and it’s the language I think in when problem solving. It wasn’t the first language I learned (that would be Java) but once…