“They want drugs.” “They want relief.” “They want to escape.” “They want to feel safe.” I want to feel safe.

When you test a car’s battery, what are you doing? You’re asking: how much energy can you store? How does that compare to the amount of energy you were designed to? Over time, that storage capacity inevitably goes down. Why? In short, being a battery is hard. Every charge/discharge cycle causes chemical and physical stress….

“I’ll SSH in.” That’s the networking equivalent of saying you knowing the passcode to get into the webkinz chat room. You run ssh username@server-ip to remotely access a server’s command line. Instead of physically accessing a machine, you can use it to set up, debug, or maintain a server from anywhere. AWS Lambda is like…

You’ve seen the Portuguese dominate trade, now followed by the British Empire and the French, using steamships to shorten the routes to Asia. Maybe this is the stage upon which you make an entrance. If a trade route connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, that would cut the route in half — Africa is…

This is a very nerdy post, because I’ve been working with a lot of customers who use NetSuite. Some nice things about NetSuite. They support token-based authentication. Think of it like the password needed to enter the doors of Moria (“speak friend and enter) except only one specific friend knows the code and can get…