Off to Mars we go!

Here's an amazing summary from C|Net of the massive SpaceX Starship, which is envisioned to take up to 100 humans to Mars ahead. Three times a Saturn V rocket by most measures! 😮

Most popular GitHub programming languages in 2018

Interesting! 😀 See GitHub's blog post concerning the most popular programming languages for GitHub projects in 2018.

Back to Basics; capiche?

This ZD|Net article's right on. Navigating the frequent and massive Windows 10 Updates is simply "burdensome". And the new features aren't that compelling. Time to re-think the strategy, MSFT!

Another interesting insight from the article, "it's widely known that Microsoft let go a bunch of its Windows testers back in 2014, substituting flighting and new unit testing procedures in their stead. I don't think Microsoft will reverse this course and bring back testing as a separate discipline. But they could improve their testing procedures and supporting infrastructure as part of a return to a focus on fundamentals."

I've worked at large companies that effectively eliminated QA engineers on behalf of "Agile Stretch". It generally doesn't work well! Developers have a different mindset and focus than Testers, and the end quality often reflects that. You really don't want to go there! 😮

WPA3 Me!

WPA3 is on the way, cool!

Semantic search example

A fascinating example of semantic search from Google.

It's not a Bullet, it's a Black Hole!

$67 Billion end-to-end? That's in the same range as the proposed "Border Wall" 😱 It's estimated that just $8B is required to upgrade our nationwide air traffic control system to better safety standards. Lately, I feel like I'm living in some weird parallel universe! 😨