Category: Rant

Q) what is authentication A) identifying who you are Philosophical tangent on who you really are, anyway So how do you define ‘who you are’ ? Many philosopher

So following on from ‘every piece of software eventually becomes microsoft office’ post, one day you’ll find yourself reimplementing powerpoint. You’ll be doing this in javascript and html,

This is a side-rant I previously had in the swagger-combine post but thought I’d split it out here because it was a bit tangential from my over-engineered solution

I was looking at doing up a mobile app back in around February this year after getting a shiny new phone, and started writing up a disjointed screed

So from hardware failure back to software failure. Bitrot is defined in The Jargon File as bit·rot Pronunciation: /bɪt rɒt/ Noun [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the

So computer interfaces have been getting easier and easier to use, as we move from command-line interfaces to WIMP, to one-application-at-a-time-as-long-as-it’s-represented-as-a-big-coloured-square. This is all part of a long-running

Warning: may contain raunch. Part One So OK, I haven’t been back on the blog train for a few years so this is probably old hat for everyone

Way back when the internet was young and exciting, everyone wanted to be the new altavista or geocities or whatever. Unfortunately, these companies have multiple syllables in their