Yak shaving

Dear reader, I don't know what compels me to create things that have already been created by people smarter than me, harder at work than me and put much more care in their work me. I suppose it's because by creating my own tools, I tell…

Almost aimless

Dear reader, Every other day, I sit down to write something on this page, but I come up with nothing. What can I write about myself? Photography that I have given up on? Writing that I barely do? Once I realise I won't be writing anything that night,…

Software is not code

Tale of the spreadsheet punk A friend of mine builds tools in Microsoft Excel for small businesses. These don’t do much, except adding and calculating taxes, inventory, sometimes streamline very specialized workflows for a business. And these are fairly capable spreadsheets, albeit without a lot of features; Except what…