OddThinking

Progress Bars haven’t progressed much for over a decade.

Let me tell about the Progress Bar component that I will definitely one day develop, with the one proviso: I will probably never develop it.

A friend referred to sugar as “the white death”. That made me wonder what other colours there were. Here is the resulting reference chart. Where there were choices to make, I made them. Colour Death Black Bubonic Plague White Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper,White Sugar Red Cocktail Orange This spot available. Yellow Macaroni and Cheese (unreliable) […]

Three months after my death, mourners should meet for a simple and austere memorial service to mark a special occasion.

I blame you for the time I just spent refactoring my test code.

Here is a short, fictionalised, autobiographical play I wrote, in which unit-tests cause more technical debt than the code.

Bad design #1 Someone installed a smoke-alarm on my kitchen ceiling. It means it has false alarms when I am frying, unless it is well vented. Bad design #2 Once smoke-alarm it is going, the only way to shut it up is to get a ladder and remove the battery or to get a fan […]

Not too far from where I live is a mall containing a branded pasticceria café. They have several prominent framed poster-boards, several of which display the following quote, attributed to the owner: “The quality of our cakes linger long after the value of the price is gone.” For some reason, these advertisements scrape particular hard […]

Tying together the Nonblocking Log Handler story.

In which Enumerated Types are compared by programming language

A brief study in which I compare the professed religion of Australian Prime Ministers to the professed religion of Australians over the past 50 years.