One of the things I love about my job – probably the thing I love most about it – is that it provides me interesting problems to solve. Yes, I like writing code, and writing clean code probably prevents having to solve problems in the future, but the code itself is just a tool to […]
Sometimes it’s the pointless little projects that are surprisingly fun. I recently upgraded my phone. I’m not going to lie, at the end the main reason I loved my old Galaxy Nexus wasn’t the technology but the fact that I had a custom case with the DetroitHockey.Net logo on it. Half the point of the […]
“Ahoy, matees! Ye good ship [company name redacted] has openin’s for wild, talented, sea-worthy PHPirates an’ web developers t’ join the crew in thar normal behaviors o’ technical adventurin’ ‘n grog consumption. You’ll sail thee vast dataseas, wielding code like a sabre and buildin’ sites to confound and delight even the blackest of beards.” Thus […]
I’d been extremely resistant to adopting third-party tools in my development efforts for a very long time. I liked owning my tools end-to-end and I liked writing my own code just for the sake of knowing exactly how it worked. I didn’t even have a Gmail account because I was running my own mail server […]
I’ve written about one of my favorite charity events on DetroitHockey.Net before but with Mario Marathon on it’s sixth iteration this weekend, I thought I’d say something here. Mario Marathon features a group of guys playing their way through the core Super Mario video games, streaming their efforts online in a telethon-like fundraiser for Child’s […]
I’m a big alternate history geek and I recently stumbled onto a thread at AlternateHistory.com asking “What if Mark Hamill had been killed in the car accident that occurred between the filming of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back?” “Gone The New Hope” covers more than just the possible development of the Star Wars saga, branching […]
A friend was just installing Ad Block Plus on a new machine and sent the following screenshot to me: There’s something I find highly ironic about the maker of software that limits publishers’ ability to make money asking for donations to continue doing so. There are a lot of sites out there that use horrible […]