Five for Friday – November 22, 2019

Another week gone, and I’m still frustrated with the world around me. Trying to stay positive, but…sheesh. Here’s some stuff worth reading. I’m cheating, but this is worth it. Here is a post highligting seven must-reads for women in tech. I don’t often highlight AB Testing podcasts here, but we had Anne-Marie Charrett on a…

I mentioned on twitter that Barack Obama and I both left our old jobs on the same day. The world has been a very different place for both of us since then. Twitter is full of politics – and I’m completely ok with that, and happy to join in with my own opinions and thoughts….

Another week whirled by – here’s some stuff I found worth sharing. I polished off another fiction book last week – this time it was Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It’s a quick and fun read – not 5-stars good, but definitely interesting enough to recommend. Someone on the ABTesting slack pointed me to rephonic.com,…

While cleaning out some boxes my Mom had packed away, I came across a yearbook from my freshmen year of high school. I hated my freshmen photo. I had skull surgery a few months earlier (long story for another post), and needed to have my head shaved. As I remember it, by the time school…

I’m back at the job after a long break (including a month vacationing in Australia – trip report coming). I spent a chunk of time after the Xbox One ship figuring out what the next step in my software career was going to be. In the days up to the Xbox One launch, I hinted…

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…