I had a need for the Erlang build tool rebar for a project I was trying to start on; a bit of pen testing via Elixir.  I was going to pull down the rebar3 script from the site and fix it up for myself and it occurred to me that others might want a way […]

Quite some time ago, I took over maintenance of the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for both Elixir and Erlang.  I did release new versions of both packages as new versions of Erlang and Elixir became available but I didn’t do a lot of work on either of them.  That changed a little bit today. One thing that […]

Recently I saw a great post on Extreme Tech about the upcoming Windows 10 release and, to put it in my own words, the heart of the problem with both Windows 8.x and Windows 10.  Well, one of the problems with the great “Desktop/Tablet Convergence” that Microsoft has been trying to foist on all of us […]

One thing I have noticed about myself over the years; I’m not as good as I would care to be at focusing on details. In fact, sometimes I’m awful at paying attention to the details. As a software developer, of course, details are extremely important. I’ve come up with (and read about) a few tricks/heuristics to […]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and ready to go from the head of the […]