Not a rant, but anyone else here expanding their knowledge of other sciences?
Im currently in a psychology, physics and cognition phase/fad

Met a newly recruited Data Scientist the other day and he complemented me on my work on information retrieval.
The lesson is keep learning, keep reading and keep trying

Great start to a day when a new release of code has performance degrade over time. Turns out some concurrent collection was causing lock contention.

Removed 1500+ lines of code today. It felt good

Want to know how to really screw the performance of your web service? Throw in some database row locks with no timeout

My resolution for this year is to stop hating javascript.

Error: cannot read property "year" from undefined.

Trying to resolve merge conflicts and you cant remember which changes are the ones you want to keep. Lesson learned, make sure your pull requests dont sit waiting for weeks while master is happily being worked on.

Happy "setting up a family member's new laptop/tablet/echo" day

So I am working on a Java library with minimal dependencies. Everything goes well until you dont want clients knowing how to construct the internal objects and you dont have a depenency injection framework to help.
Unit testing becomes that bit trickier

When I want to write a blog post, get started then give up because ....