Fun with Curl and Dart

If you’re a Dart programmer, the curl command doesn’t really help you. Oh, it can tease you with of its wonderful functionality, but you still have...

Returning to D&D

30 years ago, I paused a 5-year love of D&D to attend college. About six months ago, I picked it up again with my adult sons, who’d gathered for my...

WebAssembly explodes client-side programming

Back in the olden days, you could use whatever programming language you wanted to write your client-side code: ASM, C, C++, BASIC, Java, C#, etc....

Building a modern, mobile-first app

A while ago, I started building a brand new client app. I wanted to use all of the modern techniques to make it a great app and to make sure it had...

Viking Me

Today, I was asked about the story behind my viking avatar: The avatar is years and years old. Peter Stern, a graphic designer friend of mine, put...

Backgammon and Using Your Own Products

Have you ever used a product of any kind — an app, a device, a plunger — and thought to yourself “Do these people even use their own product?” As a...

Google Cloud Storage Hierarchy in .NET

Google’s Cloud Storage Browser perpetrates a fiction of files and folders that doesn’t exist. The Google Cloud Storage (GCS) API only has two...

Breaking Into the Industry

I got an email the other day from an old friend that said he’d met a young developer named Ben and that he was impressed with his “acumen,...