Five for Friday – November 4, 2022

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 thought it would be worth writing this up and sharing. Last week was, for me, at least, time for another Windows update. With this one, my mouse stopped working – or to be clear, it started becoming unusable. The x coordinate speed was 1/3 of what it should be. With three monitors, it was pretty…

This has been a long week – but I still found a few things worth sharing. Here they are. I think this is a must read article on The Career, Accomplishments, and Impact of Richard I. Cook I also enjoyed this article on The Real Difficulty of Engineering Leadership In today’s news, I was fascinated…

Calendar math says I’m a few hours into the 39th day since I started at Unity. I’m still well within the honeymoon window, but my optimism and excitement about working here continue to grow. It’s just a pretty damn cool place to work. I’ve met most of my team face to face, and will spend more…

I am almost completely recovered from my bout with coronavirus. Only thing remaining is a lingering cough, and that I now need about two more hours of sleep a night than I have in decades. I’m still planning a long hike in a few weeks, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. In the meantime, I’ve…

Back for another week of random links and interesting articles from the internet. For the ‘murican readers here, the US Vaccine Tracker is a nice look at vaccine rates across a variety of demographics. A great article on metrics that don’t suck from Greg Paciga Just this week, I was in a conversation about automating…