Kickstarter

I backed a dumb Kickstarter project which in retrospect is an obvious scam (tech project with too short deadline, based on environmental/free energy, creators from greater Russia). It was supposed to deliver a dumb iPhone case around 1.5 years ago, and has been stringing people along with dumb excuses for delays and several “we’ll ship […]

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User Scenarios Considered Harmful

Programming can be complex.  Modern systems can include many inputs from users.  Inputs that each need to be checked, processed, and results returned back to users.  A simple interface to the user may support many usage scenarios and many error scenarios.  Here I’ll make a case for not bothering with trying to figure out these […]

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If Cable Bundles are so Bad, why do People Keep Buying Them?

Cable bundles are apparently worse than literally Hitler, or at least the latest Kim Kardashian picture (which according to the internet is almost as bad). It is apparently the best thing since Britney and sliced bread that cable companies are about to be forced to sell channels a la carte.  I’m all for a la […]

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Gastronomical Exbeeriment You Cannot Try at Home

Here’s a thing that I did: bread with beer. Here’s where it gets interesting. The beer has no label. That’s because it is an experimental brew that was made in a very small batch (5000 bottles or 1650 liters). […]

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