A Quick Primer for the Non-Technical: Staging Area: A final testing environment that mimics the live product. Deprecated: A term for software, features, or entire modules that are considered obsolete and are scheduled for removal. Patch/Update: A piece of code[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Language is a precision tool—or at least, it should be. But somewhere along the way, we collectively decided that accuracy is overrated and that hijacking terms for comedic effect is far more entertaining. Now, we wield words like toddlers with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let’s talk about how we husbands “fix” things around the house. Notice the quotation marks—because while we technically address the problem, our solutions often fall somewhere between temporary and mildly concerning. We don’t just repair things; we innovate. We don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a special kind of modern panic that sets in when you realize you’ve accidentally locked yourself out of your entire digital life. And I owe this particular existential crisis to my shiny new phone—or more accurately, to the 10-minute[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deep in the bowels of every enterprise, there exists a piece of software so ancient, so cryptic, that it might as well be written in hieroglyphics. It’s the system that someone built in 1998—back when dial-up internet was cutting-edge and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s nothing quite like the frustration of interacting with an AI help system that’s about as useful as a chocolate teapot. You approach it with hope, typing out your carefully worded question, only to be met with the digital equivalent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re like me, you’ve at least been tangentially involved in one or two IT projects that relied more on hope than a solid plan. Such projects operate off the official methodology of “We’ll figure it out later” and “That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing screams modern suffering quite like an alarm clock that treats waking up like a quest in a RPG you never signed up for. Gone are the days of simple beep beep—now you’ve got apps that force you to scan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Programmers everywhere are nervously watching GitHub Copilot autocomplete their jobs into oblivion. Gone are the days of “I’ll just Google Stack Overflow for eight hours.” Now, you just whisper your problem into ChatGPT like a digital oracle, and voilà! Code[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The annual Mom Games represent the pinnacle of competitive suburban survival skills, where twenty-four battle-hardened parents enter a superstore arena but only one emerges victorious. This isn’t your typical Hunger Games – here the weapons are Yelp reviews sharper than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…