The “Quick” Question

And why we need to stop asking them.

“Oh, hey, I have a quick question for you.”

Hearing that fills me with an impending sense of doom.

C++ is Russian literature

And pretty much everyone dies

From the interview with Jodi Picoult:

The one genre I absolutely cannot stand is Russian literature. You need genealogy charts to just figure out the characters, every novel is a…

Programming is a nightmare

An American novelist Philip Roth once said that “writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.” After I read that, I realized I felt the same way about computer programming. Below is his full quote except I replaced writing with programming.

Technical Debt

An email

The other day, an Informatics student from the University of Edinburgh sent me an email with questions about technical debt in JSHint. I replied to his email. Then I remembered I have a collection that looked like it was the perfect fit for that reply.

leaky pipes

a poem

was watching a news segment

about napa earthquake

and leaky pipes

and technicians

who had to fix them.

sick

cold induced hallucinations

at home

sick

the cat is here too

we are one

i sleep, he sleeps

not to worry

bukowski this time

he sits there
big in his chair
contented
and he tells me he
abandoned his previous
project
went to a different company
started all over
again.