In the smaller technical world of ETL, we have a saying, "All data is suspect, some is just more guilty than the rest." 

In the large world of real life, when...

So in addition to more frequent updates, we have monthly OS security patches, the mess that is Windows 10 patches and updates plus application updates. Add in all the updates...

I think the UK has bigger security issues they don't address other than cybersecurity.

I prefer stored procedures in applications. In ad-hoc situations, queries will do until the script starts evolving into an application.

ORMs are a special case. I'd prefer not...

All this concern with passwords and no one yet has mentioned poor management, poor processes and the house of sand that our hardware, operating systems and applications are built on....

I was in the military and also did shift work, so time and place is just another thing you deal with.

But I have this neat idea how to fix the...

Technology wise, I think we need to address the nature of tools and practices we used to build our infra-structure. Much of it, including IoT, is built poorly and cheaply like the...

My career radar is leading me towards more secure and reliable programming.

Two languages that I'm exploring outside the job are Ada and Erlang/Elixir. Not because they are...

You say "ETL specialist", I say "Data Janitor".  😀

It's muddles all the way down... 😀

I automated myself out of a job once with 2 DCL scripts on the company VAXen...

No.
I could have been in a dozen different career choices and still paid the bills while being a professional. I've worked in other technical roles and they were equally...

One of the blessing and challenges we have in the data wrangling world is that there's a cornucopia of tools. You can't master everything, there's not enough time. So figure out what...