★★★★☆ (4 / 5) Most online criticism I see about this book revolves around the fact that this an IT textbook disguised and advertised as a novel. So let’s get this out of the way first: yes, this is a… Read More »Book Review: The Phoenix Project
Before I left Turbulent back in 2018, I had started to become vocal about the pitfalls of using ORMs for any project more complex than simple blog. I had started to develop this notion that as project complexity increases, the… Read More »ORMs are an anti-pattern
Reddit’s recent API pricing scandal and ensuing protests have made me think once more about openness and decentralization on the web, a topic I’ve written about before. TLDR: when you create content on the web, whoever is hosting that content owns it.
Read More »Reddit’s seppuku★★☆☆☆ 2 / 5 Same pattern as the other books: characters form groups, the groups start off in different directions, learn more about the world, and bicker a lot along the way. Finally there is a final confrontation, always super… Read More »Book Review: The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)
2022 turned out to be a banner year for human stupidity, so photography was a sort of psychological lifeboat for me. I invested quite a bit of time in honing my skills for both composition and post-editing. You can peek… Read More »New photos for the new year!
★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Fantastic work by Alan Moore, as usual. Fact Sheet Author: Alan Moore Publisher: America’s Best Comics ISBN: 9781563898587
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 Original review: I did not like this book. I feel like the author was too much in love with his protagonist. He really, really wants you to think Kvothe is really cool and badass, but he… Read More »Book Review: The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Really enjoyed the first 80% of the book, but the chapters after the WotC acquisition read like a paid advertisement of their current products and offer little insight on the human story behind the development. Fact… Read More »Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History
★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Much better than Dune Messiah, although it can’t have the singular impact of the original Dune. Herbert is definitely willing to take the series to a different place, which is very good! Fact Sheet Author: Frank… Read More »Book Review: Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
Sitting here in the ER for nearly ten hours now, it’s hard not to contemplate our public health system and come to the conclusion that we, as a society, have utterly failed to maintain the welfare state ideals of the 70’s. How did we get to this point?