Today I found myself in a discussion about why the state of the project was in the state it was. The voices of concern were that we were just working blindly without there being a refined user story and ticket to keep track of. No usage of Pythonic standards were followed. No linting, no tests and no clear structure in the code. In short all the things we as developers have said time and again we should not accept in a project yet we did it again anyway.

This post is in response to many claims of other posts stating that storing a UTC date is not enough in all situations. The most recent one that triggered me being this one. They all claim that you lose information about when something happened. I will refer to Unix timestamps when saying timestamps from now on.

To add to previous post where I talk about using Unix timestamps for all things related to when I want to give the following addendum.

We all know the saying it is that you know what to do with it. Well it seems in development world the size is not the bigger the better but everything has to be as tiny as possible; from silicon chips to frameworks. Also they have no idea how to use it and what to do with it.

I am not talking about the cost of a coffee bar complete with barista, two old arcade machines, some bean bags, a table-tennistable, maybe one desk with a MacBook Pro on it to do some work as you attract the new edgy hispster software engineers that only write the latest trending obscure esoteric languages.

This will be a quick post about why you should not make your own identifiers if you can and also if you need to have an identifier that is easy to communicate with/about for clients base it on something that is still very much unique.

I don't mean the security practice of using a hashing function to rehash content. I want to talk about the other meaning of the word. When some message gets repeated over and over again over time using slightly different wording to deliver it each retelling.

There seems to exist a force that creates, shapes, imagines and executes ideas. This creative force or force of creativity can seem to be very innocent, frolicking and playfully suggesting magnificent new heights to take your thoughts soaring out over the mediocrity that through osmosis fills your everyday existence.

This post is about a thin line between a helpful utility and full on magic show.

There was a time where the system of skill transferring was such that you would start out as an apprentice to learn the skill imposed upon you. You would be an apprentice to a master and through watching and consuming the information you would slowly learn the basics and the fundamentals and progress to more and more advanced stages until you are self a master taking on an apprentice.