While trying to debug an ancient application that has been the undoing of just about everyone on my team, I've put these articles aside for later:
- Using the example of an automated process that sends out emails that your inbox subsequently deletes without any intervention on your part, Raymond Chen discusses Le Chatelier's Principle.
- Demonstrating that a stopped clock is correct twice a day, it turns out the Trump tax cuts have given a (temporary) boost to craft distilling.
- Whisky Advocate name-checks (literally) one of my favorite local distilleries.
- Greg Sargent provides yet another column about President Trump's "bottomless bad faith and nonstop lying."
- New Republic's David Dayen reminds us that Obama also had cabinet-level institutional resistance in the person of Tim Geithner.
- Also in New Republic, "The Tyranny of Personality Testing." Apparently MBTI is evil. Uh huh.
- Microsoft is using some cool AI to diagnose and fix intermittent SQL Server problems.
Back to the mouldering pile of fetid dingo kidneys that is this application...