Here we go again
So, something about Christmas leads a man's heart to diy blogging engines. Seriously. I think it's a chunk of time off, though as I'm now retired and have been for a few months, that doesn't really make sense?
I never did complete a number of features I'd planned when I last worked on it and despite my good intentions I didn't do any retrospective posts.
Over the last week, I've been rewriting my Nodejs system in Ruby, a language I played with years (and years) ago. It's a very satisfying language, and I don't have to deal with callbacks or promises or async/await stuff -- all of which is probably excellent for high performance sites, but complete overkill for this little blog of mine.
I've cheated a bit by doing some retrospective posting-- the pieces were all written when it says they were, just never posted. I've cleaned up the typos and added links where there were placeholders in the original text.
I found a post about a reddit article about programmers and management. The quotes and my comments still ring true to me, and I take some pleasure from the fact that I was a 40 and 50 and 60 year old programmer.
And as I look back on things I wrote 15 years ago, I'm very glad of the wayback machine and pinboard .
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