I needed a laptop for some PowerBI contracting work at the beginning of the year, and I ended up going with the Dell Inspiron 13" i7 2-in-1.  I've been very...

This is very timely for me; I literally just got a ping from a recruiter that I was working with a year ago when I got my current job. ...

(Disclaimer: we don't actually have a formal DBA position; most of the data systems we have were built by contractors and have been maintained by people with little to no...

Thank you for bringing up suicide awareness in your post.  I have personally struggled with suicidal thoughts, and I have lost multiple friends to suicide.  I was at a suicide...

Wow 64GB of RAM is like a dream.  Right now, we use VMs, which we could get more RAM for, but there's pretty much no business case for more RAM unless...

I usually say, "I work for X company; this is what they do, and this is all the data that they gather, and what I do is work with that...

Juggling balls, fidget toys, the leather marker/eraser holder that I just finished making from scratch last week, the jaguar who stares at me when I drift off......

Definitely a mix of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators for me, but the moment when I found out I could make a computer do ANYTHING still stands out as one of...

Wow, I didn't realize my experience was so contrary to the norm.  My test for the job I have right now had me write an ER diagram then write a...

The problem is, nobody pays developers to do security, and developers aren't held accountable for the security flaws in their systems.  Of course, it's hard to hold someone accountable for...

At my current job, our organization actually exists for the Testing department who writes tests that are supposed to test someone's aptitude for the job instead of someone's measure of...

I'm actually in the middle of a systematic nuking of a full-stack disaster, which is, in my opinion, generally the best way to go if the whole system really is...