If you have a JavaScript regular expression instance (doesn’t matter how you construct it) that you want to re-use so that you don’t have to recreate it for every use, beware, particularly if you use the ‘g’ or ‘y’ flags. Examples abound that include the use of ‘g’ flag, and…

Here’s a new one.. I changed my CPU/Memory config for a Parallels VM on my Mac today, and when I started back up, it said it had no network. It was working before I reduced the CPUs and RAM I allocate it… I tried the usual things: Disable/enable the adapter. …

For a few years now, I’ve been a big fan of Ubiquiti Networks. I first upgraded to their EdgeRouter Lite ERLite-3 router back in 2015. Later I added their switch and WAPs. I wouldn’t exactly say this isn’t for your average home user, but, this isn’t for your average home…

Not long ago I started at a new company, and the first project I worked on was configured to run (and has config that expects to be) on http://localhost:8888. So far so not very unusual. Everything was hunky-dory until I needed to test on IE11. At that point, because I…

I had a flirtation with a potentially very lucrative opportunity in the last week or so. A good buddy of mine told me about a recruiter that’d been in touch and was hiring for a job that pays Big Money(TM) (as in multiples of what I make now — and…

Considering that “there is nothing new under the sun,” I’m sure that this, too, is not new. But it seems to me that it has become an increasingly facile rhetorical tool reached for by those who are either unable or unwilling to communicate their point of view in a convincing…

Hypothetically speaking, let’s say you are in charge of a software team (or teams) that is working up to a relatively large release — lots of moving pieces, etc. Your team is working hard up to, during, and after a release. And yet the crap still hits the fan. What…

And the Re-Humanization of Ourselves — What is your identity? If your first answer to that is to categorize yourself into one or more groups, you’re wrong. You are not a category. You are not a group. You are an individual — a person, not a nameless member of a class, race, species, gender, etc. Internalize that. Believe that. …

So you’re life is going according to plan, until all of the sudden, your Bluetooth is gone. Windows 10 manifests this by not giving the the switch in the Devices screen of Settings. …