Dead Acura MDX

Security FAIL!

So everyone wants you to use long complex passwords for security. Then you go to use their app and they give you no option/checkbox to show the password as you’re typing it in. Try and type $*#jv90!!%pwM791^bp5 on a little phone keyboard without making a single typing mistake while not being able to see what […]

Engineers isolated from customers

For the techie folks out there: Reading an article regarding Amazon’s success implementing a distributed micro-services architecture and I came across this success factor bullet. “Developers should spend some time with customer service every two years. Their they’ll actually listen to customer service calls, answer customer service e-mails, and really understand the impact of the […]

Docker replaces VMs

Moved from KVM/QEMM to Docker for all of my various needs server needs, i.e. plex, LAMP, etc. I have beefy server hardware; nonetheless, the overall performance improvement of containers vs. virtualization is astounding. Moreover the community support for Docker is such that the move was painless. There’s still a use case for vitalization; for example, […]