Recognizing a riptide

There is so much advancement of technology, I can’t keep up at the moment.  Chrome, FireFox, Drupal, WordPress, Video, Live Streaming, Angular vs React, SSL, HTTP/2.  Upgrades to the tooling I’ve built have been put off so long, that now they are beginning to be incompatible.

I can see, now, that I’ve been swimming in an ocean of sorts.  There is a strong current of technical change and technical debt, that is pulling me out to sea.

A Riptide!!!!

Now I knew the answer:  Swim parallel to shore to get out of the current, then swim back to shore.

Sideways for a while, it is.

FPCON Bravo

Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

Late Nights->No Problem

It starts with a burning. A desire to do something I haven’t done before.

I wanted to have a system to tame big data, and produce charts. I finished a prototype. Then, the work to create the database, tables, queries to make it run. I get stuck.

Invariably, when I have a break-through, its later in the evening, and I can’t stop.

So now it’s 1:15AM, and the break-through is in code…but will I wake up in time to get to work ontime?

Who rules Barter-town?