Texas AG: Trump would have lost if he hadn’t blocked mail-in ballot applications In my opinion, the biggest thing going on in Politics today is the Republican party doing everything it can to stay in power, despite having increasingly unpopular policy positions. Newsweek has an article about Texas Attorney …

Technology “addiction” Jason Feifer’s Build for Tomorrow podcast has an episode saying that we’re not “addicted” to technology. I really enjoyed this episode and thought that it made a compelling case that “addiction” is the wrong word. I do think that advertising-based …

Book cover design recommendation: Keylin Rivers I’ve just had a book cover designed for a project I haven’t yet said anything about publicly, but I’m definitely indie Publishing. I ordered a cover for the project on Tuesday, and Keylin Rivers delivered an almost perfect cover on Saturday with all of …

How the pandemic will end Zeynep Tufecki paints a grim potential end to the pandemic if we don’t get vaccines out as quickly as possible.

Software estimation the jacobian way Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote about his approach to software project estimation which is an important Project Management tool. His writeup is straightforward and clear, and the approach itself is the same: for each task, estimate size and uncertainty (as a multiplier). Then to estimate, …

Backlinks 2021-05-28 Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote about his approach to software project estimation which is an important Project Management tool. His writeup is straightforward and clear, and the approach itself is the same: for each task, estimate size and uncertainty (as a multiplier). Then to estimate, you can add …

River Runner: visualization of raindrop flow River Runner lets you place a raindrop anywhere in the US and it will show you where that water ultimately ends up.

The GOP pushing toward anti-democracy Greg Sargent writes about Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger’s support to dig into votes in a GA county. Georgia did multiple hand recounts of votes, and all of these efforts to question the already-clearly-decided 2020 election threaten Democracy. But the whole point …

Backlinks 2021-05-26 Greg Sargent writes about Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger’s support to dig into votes in a GA county. Georgia did multiple hand recounts of votes, and all of these efforts to question the already-clearly-decided 2020 election threaten Democracy.

grule rules engine in Go grule tries to implement ideas from JBoss Drools in a more Go-like way. I’ve never personally found a need for such a Rules Engine, but the continued existence of these things shows that someone is finding value from them.