3 May 2025

22 links · Saturday

The Best Engineers Make Mistakes

Learn practical steps to handle mistakes, move from panic to problem-solving, and create a culture where engineering errors become valuable learning opportunities.

How to Build an RFID Race Timing System

Everything you need to get started on your race timing journey, from choosing the right tools for the job to working through common race timing challenges.

Silly Job Titles

Many years ago I was on a programming project porting code from OS/2 1.x to NT. When I was there they suddenly decided to make a database of all people and get job titles for everyone – appar…

When Flat Rate Movers Won't Answer Your Calls

Back in 2023 I went through an inter-state move with Flat Rate Movers, LTD. (US DOT 488466, MC 254356). They bungled the job, damaged my stuff and my house, and then refused to talk to me or their own insurance company. I placed dozens of calls, wrote letters,…

Passwords are okay, impulsive Internet isn't

Article discussing the push for passkeys as an alternative to passwords, including numerous problems associated with passkeys like big companies agenda, complicated proprietary implementations, vendor lock-in requirements and dependency on smartphones, dubious…

The Abstraction Gap

Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises.

Jazzberry

The Jazzberry Web App

ieve's garden 🌱

Summary: A winding rant about finding value as as a med device QE, getting along with difficult personalities and risk tolerances that don't mesh well with mine, and wondering why I'm doing any of this at all...

ARK001: Building ARK RESTful API

In this video, we walk through how to build a complete RESTful API for Project ARK — from clean architecture and service orchestration to database integration and automated testing. You'll see how to implement a scalable, maintainable API using modern .NET pra…

Accountability Sinks

Accountability engineering in institution design

Weekly Recap - 2025-05-02

Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!