While evaluating the migration of some legacy data, a colleague approached me with a possible bug in MS SQL Server masking. We were looking for a way to give newer team members access to some data which is encrypted at rest, but could be returned in clear text in SSMS…

As a software developer, I couldn’t miss the sudden flurry of news articles, blog posts, and Youtube videos about how the freely available, natural language-based chatbot AI is going to wipe out virtually every knowledge worker from software developers to lawyers and accountants, etc. Seemingly, we missed our collective prediction…

Being aggressively lazy inspires many of my coding novelties, particularly wanting to type less. I work fanatically to reduce the amount of overall work I do. Future me will probably realize that I just pull more work into the pipeline, but don’t tell “present me” or this will be a…

Our task as programmers is to solve problems. Generally, someone identifies a problem and we’ll crack open an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like XCode, Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. to start translating the real world question into computer commands. Sometimes situations arise which call for lines and lines of very repetitive…

Ramping down from my role as software architect and co-founder of a software company, I looked for some good sources about what to do afterward. Most of the articles I’ve found focus on valuations, contracts, and how to get “there”, rather than how to define what “there” should look like…