Posts tagged with "Rant"

Cancelling Sirius XM Radio

I tried to cancel my Sirius XM Satellite radio that came included with my car purchase today. They automatically start billing after the trial ends. After muddling through their website, I found the only way to cancel the subscription is via chat or phone. I op...

Seth's 10 Commandments of Air Travel

I travel a lot. I spend a lot of nights in hotel rooms, a lot of miles in rental cars, and, mostly importantly, a lot of time on airplanes. As I approach my millionth mile this year, it feels appropriate to compile my 10 commandments of air travel.

Dropbox Hasn't Learned their Lesson

You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox Hacks Your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about the activities they are performing in their software distribution. Nope, not Dropbox. Today they released an...

The 10 Myths of DevOps

Although not officially coined until 2009, DevOps ideals have been explicitly discussed since at least 2006. Recently, however, the term "DevOps" has gained increasing popularity across a variety of fields and industries. DevOps is not a development methodology...

StackOverflow is full of children

I recently experienced one of my most negative interactions with the humans of StackOverflow. I try not to rant or rave on my blog as much as possible, but I simply cannot let this go. It all boils down to this:

Semantic Versioning

I'm honestly sick of the discrepancies that exist between versioning. As such, I'm proposing a universal versioning scheme with actual definitions that are easy to understand and follow. One of the biggest complaints from non-technical users of alpha/beta/relea...