A large portion of this week in the office was spent working through some interesting networking configuration to allow test devices at remote sites to securely access a cloud database… thankfully people much smarter than I were able to assist!
Precision Planting’s 20|20 Display was featured this week in a story on the Qt website, which included an interview with my coworker Dave. It’s a nice view into some of the products we work on, along with some of the technical decisions we’ve made over the years.
While working on a project in the office, I was reminded that, sometimes, slightly over-engineering is not a bad thing. I had forgotten that I built a safe-guard into a product’s software so that it wouldn’t install updates that didn’t explicitly include support for its hardware revision. While it was an annoyance this time, it also has saved many headaches in the past.
This weekend was spent ripping some new (to me) Jazz CDs to my Plex server. I’m really enjoying some of the new albums, and am currently listening to The Best of Miles Davis: The Capitol/Blue Note Years while writing this post.

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
- There are a number of useful courses here for developers, covering all of the tools that we use daily but that don’t get taught.
Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
- Very interesting blog post by Cabel Sasser about a Dixieland jazz band that I’d never heard of before.
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
- I hope this is a net positive for Mozilla. I love using Firefox, and want it to thrive, and continue to grow in market share.
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

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Accidental Tech Podcast: 574: Weird Forking Scenario
Clockwise: 541: Peripherereral Free
Connected: 489: The Birds Chirp in the Black Void
Darknet Dairies: 142: Axact
DTNS/Good Day Internet: Where Do You Draw the Line? - Editor’s Desk
DTNS/Good Day Internet: 4708 Extended: Don’t Pass on Passkeys
Getting Things Done: 246: Slice of GTD Life with Rene Lie
Issues, Etc.: 443: Dechurching in America, Part 2 - Michael Graham
Issues, Etc.: 472: The Presence of Jesus’ Body and Blood in the Sacrament - Dr. Jordan Cooper
It’s A Thing: 303: Tom fought in the Rumi Wars
It’s A Thing: 304: Men Are Welcome Until They Die
Late Night Linux: 268
Mac Power Users: 731: “Tears Rolled Down My Light Seal”
The Rebound: 482: Two Out of Three Hosts Say Yes
The Talk Show With John Gruber: 95: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, with Adam Lisagor
Upgrade: 499: We Have All the Cushions
We’re Not Wrong: About Libertarian RFK Jr. and the Monoculture