Monday afternoon, I started to get a little tickle in the back of my throat. I warned folks at work that evening that toxicity was impending, and went to bed early in hopes of staving it off. Sadly, it proved stronger than my meagre will, and I spent most of Tuesday…

So, gonna put this up here — this isn’t related to tech, and if you don’t want to read about religion, or cannot manage a rational and decent discourse, you may want to shuffle off and read something else. This isn’t intended to be inflammatory, but you have been warned.

Let me start this off with a huge confession (and/or hidden shame) — I’m not a podcast person. Even though I spend an hour in my car every day getting to/from work, I listen to music, not to news or podcasts. However, today was a special day — as the first day of summer for my daughter, I woke up early to…

It has been ten days since I published the story about how our GitLab licensing costs were going up by some 230%, and how we felt incredibly shafted — first, by the giant increase, and second by the lack of attention/care the sales people provided. There was a…