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Hi guys! Software is fun to write! Well, it is. The trick, though, is to write the software that people actually need. There I was, with an application that’d been stable for months (untouched by human hands! Self-repairing!), which was what I needed to know, and I finally did. So I sent a quick note […]

Don’t look at me like that. The question gets sort of interesting, if you’ll just stare at it (instead of me) long enough. Still not interesting? Well, keep trying. …I swear, some people just have no attention span at all. All right, I admit it: I didn’t think there was much to it, way back […]

Who sees your data? Where does it live? What can you do about it? Also: why backups, essential though they are, are just not the point. Let me take a moment to put all that into a practical context. Nearly 20 years ago I worked for a credit union. Well, actually I worked for a […]