The short answer is “No.” The longer answer is a little more complicated. Peloton offers an app that you can use on your Android, iPhone or iPad device as well as your smart TV or Amazon Fire. This Peloton app is essentially a Netflix for fitness videos with […]
I had a Strava summit subscription for a year, and my subscription is expiring. I will not be renewing it. Nazi and confederate memes are the reason why. Last fall, I came upon a Strava segment where KOM was a Strava user with an Alt-Right meme for a […]
In my post on passwords, I said: As it stands today, the real challenge is the initial identity verification. There is no single good way for, say, a banking application, to confirm the identity of the user opening the banking app for the first time on their smartphone […]
My employer told everyone to work remotely to protect the employees. I understand and appreciate the announcement. Having worked remotely for five years for my previous employer, I am a bit apprehensive about it. In this post, I hope to describe the challenges we had, what to anticipate, and how to cope.
“Covid19” is gripping America in a mass hysteria. Maybe some good will come out of the experience.
Passwords are the scourge of Internet security. They are easy to forget, they are too many of them, and they are relatively easy to steal or guess.
In the past three years, I have been doing more and more of my work in Golang. If I had to pick a language for backend microservice development (which is where 99% of my career has been), I would now gladly choose Go.
An elephant graveyard, when applied to a corporate setting, is a team, company, or some other set of conditions in which otherwise bright engineers are forced into positions or assignments where there is no hope for future career growth. In this post, I hope to define the conditions that must be present for an elephant graveyard to form, how to detect them, and how to navigate them.
I am a big fan of data-driven fitness. I’ve been using some sort of a fitness tracking ecosystem for almost five years. Nothing motivates me more than a correctly recorded workout.
I have no idea what the cold caller was trying to sell as I did not have the brain power to process it. My mind was preoccupied with something else. What cold callers from vendors don’t seem to grasp is that they are asking the person to switch context from what they are doing and focus on the conversation.
