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Review: Keep Calm and Code On
Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software professionally, not so much the technical aspects but lessons learned through experience. The subtitle is "A tactical guide for navigating the pitfalls of…
Reservations Everywhere
Our family took a vacation this summer in Japan. The island nation has always been a popular tourist destination, but the recent weakness in the yen has made it even more popular and therefore crowded with foreign travelers just like…
Limited Technology
As an unabashed fan of both e-ink technologies as well as reading, I regularly look for and upgrade my e-readers: going from the original Kindles, to the Kindle Voyager and Oasis[1], to the Remarkable and Kindle Scribe and the…
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the standard high school courses, but I started collecting, and became enamored, with books written by famous contemporary physicists: Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian…
Gaming to Engage
Remember when gamification was the technique du jour a decade ago? The software industry pounced on the idea that game mechanics—known to trigger the dopamine releases that keep users coming back for more—could be applied to anything to…
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the box , with no room for…
