Danger

After a two-year hiatus, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI), is returning live and unfiltered to Sydney from 17–18 September at Carriageworks. …

Code Review is an essential activity in software development. Many aspects must be taken care of when we review a code, mainly when we review code from people who have just joined the team. Even though there is already a code convention, sometimes we forget some basic things. Likewise, code…

Back in March 2020, right when pandemic restrictions kicked in, a couple of friends I were enjoying a nice rice and bean dinner when we started talking about traveling. Not plans on traveling, but moreso how traveling is done these days, how it can get over complicated by over planning…

The globe is filled of old buildings perched on pillars of rock, from temples clinging to cliff sides to churches built on pillars of rock. The difficulty in reaching these buildings, which are frequently used as places of worship, reflects their spiritual significance. …

I was 8 years old when I faced it, alone, a Rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. My hiking friends, two neighbor boys, took off when they saw it, leaving me alone at the side of a cliff with the big diamond-backed snake blocking my path. To my left was…

Terry H. Schwadron May 31, 2022 It’s unlikely, but just possible that this time enough Republican senators will relent to public pressure to coalesce around a bill that inches towards controlling guns. Obviously, we all recognize that there is substantial pressure building around age limits for legal assault-style gun purchase…

I came across this article on a memory stick that I was cleaning up: I wrote it a couple of years ago after an ‘interesting’ train journey from London to Manchester. The West Coast franchise is no longer with Virgin Rail (thankfully), but the article is ever more applicable today…