Broken mirrors looking for reflections.

What if we could ask a photon of light that traveled for so long and reflected and refracted so many times to tell us whatever it saw? How wonderful would it be to be a single photon traveling the vast, dark expanse lighting it up wherever you go?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I recently had a small discussion on why it is a bad thing when we can not automate, or script, something. The only argument this person had was if we spend two weeks on automating something that takes 5 minutes that is a bad thing. There are several reasons to automate procedures and saving time is not the main thing.

This is a brief post on a phenomenon that is easy to detect but hard to combat and even harder to eradicate. The following happens more often than not, sadly. So you are in a discussion with a colleague on what kind of tech to use and it actually got started by the other colleague saying we should use this technology. We shall call the technology Starlit Snowflakes. I hope you learned by now the first and only relevant question to ask that needs a satisfying answer is of course:

No I have not caved and suddenly love Kubernetes. Also this is probably the best topic so far that has given me so many things to write about so I hope you will allow me to milk it a little more.

As I stand in a hot grimey late afternoon sun waiting for a delayed train I am suddenly wondering what it is people see when they look at me. What is it that they perceive with their frames of reference.

I have read many a times a post starting with “I switched from Python to Go and I love it.” It baffled me until now. I have a hypothesis about why this happened and also how Google spreads. It does not spread like a disease and infect, it spreads more like religion and ideas can spread.