News & Notes from Inside the Mill
Documentation is the neglected side quest of software development. Programmers and software engineers like to build logical solutions to digital problems. They don’t like describing their work, especially considering that…
December is the cruelest monthThis time for once my cheeks are warmAfter long years in the monkey-houseI am ready for the storm - The Waterboys, December On 22-Dec-2025, I was…
Welcome to the grand unveiling. My repository is functionally complete, at least as far as Phase One is concerned. The first phase of this project is to replace the old…
During this past Halloween weekend, I was in a Montréal pub with my friend, Marc Guenette, celebrating the second half of my birthday travels and rooting for the Toronto Blue…
Back in the early 2000s, blogs were becoming a thing and WordPress was becoming quite popular as a blog software platform. It was some time in 2004 or so that…
It takes a massive hiccup in the daily operations of the digital world to force one to take a full accounting of what one has wrought over time. Over the…
flux /fləks/ n. :: the action or process of flowing or flowing out. “the flux of men and women moving back and forth” Things are in a great state of…
Being an old experienced technologist comes with a particular set of challenges. The primary one is: things change. Yes, that is a common trope among the aging. As in society,…
It’s been a little over three months since my last post. It’s been a busy time. I’m busier now than when I had a day job. Brick Mill Games My…