In the .NET world (and beyond), data access is a cluster-fucked echo chamber of half-assed rocket engineering and cargo cultism based on decade-old cathedralized thinking and corporate naval -gazing...
Playing The Fool Again I’m building a new little venture right now and, for the first time in years, I’m flipped out excited. No no not because I think it will change the world and make...
Channeling Dexter The first thing that any abstract needs to do is connect with the potential audience. This is hard, especially when you’re dealing with some ultra-technical stuff. Let’s...
The Rationale It’s generally believed that by using the Repository pattern, you can (in summary) “decouple” your data access from your domain and “expose the data in a...
It Was 2001, and I Had a Decision To Make Imagine if you could go back and rebase your technical career. What pivotal moments would you change? In 2001 I was cofounder of a pretty successful web...
Because everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy. Like, in my lifetime the changes in the world of programming have been incredible. When I was a kid we had no DOM abstractions and...
image from Words as a Conceptual Map There’s a small bit of setup here – bear with me. I relistened to one of my favorite RadioLab podcasts (‘Words’) this weekend and had my...
I Tried Saying something confuses me is no great claim – many things do. It’s entirely likely that I didn’t study Ember long enough, or maybe I didn’t give it the “time...
Drifting In 1986 I dropped out of college. I was 2 years into a meaningless attempt at a degree without a major. I lived in Los Angeles and attended L.A. Valley College taking 12 units of meaningless...
Postgres.app Some buzz going around the web today about Postgres.app. Most people don’t understand why it’s interesting – so here’s a quick explanation. Postgres can be...