On the Eve of a New Year
Here it is, the last day of 2024. Of course, when a year turns over is a pretty arbitrary thing in the grand scheme of the universe, but I take a pause anyway, because the rest of the planet does. Some years back, I learned the technique of making New Year’s Commitments, rather than Resolutions. The different being, resolutions are typically ditched after the first or second week of the year. One workout at the gym, and that’s it. One run, one turn on the new treadmill. You’ve just got higher priorities… A Commitment, on the other hand, carries the weight of something you can’t escape just after the first try. You’re committed, it has priority, you’re not going to let something else muscle it out.
Go Roughly Into That Good Light
What’s the difference between “software hacking” and “computer science”? I’d like to think that the more ‘science’ oriented part of writing code has to do with formal methods, algorithmic purity, and systems theories and whatnot. A lot more specification, a lot more academic, a lot less code. Then there’s how we generate 99% of the code that actually gets used on a daily basis. If we’re the creators of core systems, OS kernels, UI libraries, and the like, there might be more ‘science’ involved.
Tequity Podcast on Spotify!!
Even before I left Microsoft at the end of 2022, I was making appearances on podcasts, telling my story, preaching the Tequity message. Over this past year, we made plans to create our own podcast, to control the narrative, find our own guests, and tell our own story.
Well, with a few fits and starts in terms of learning how to record, edit, and post, we’ve finally produced our premier episode of the Tequity podcast, and it can be found on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qmwtXIfjluESiRfabYmke