Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

Most don't realize how unusual it should be that people the world over know exactly what is going on in US politics yet, if you ask Americans about these other countries, we often can't find them on a map much less do we know the 1st thing of their politics.

Over the next few years the world is going to start to realize how bad of an idea it was to let private US tech rise to the level of public utilities while also privatizing accountability and other basic functions to the same companies who's only goal is stock price.

It is possible to be fascinated by technology, including AI, voice recognition, etc and still horrified by the companies currently manning the gates by which people can access that technology.

Today's post is a short commentary on something I see happen all too often in tech. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/development-is-more-than-an-internet-search/

No, FOSS solutions don't have to scale to GAFAM size. That said, they often do need to scale to small group (2-10 people) and all too often most FOSS solutions fail miserably at that.

One of the most damaging impacts of social media and the internet in general is that we've completely devalued the concepts of study and experience in nearly every topic and replaced them with a 30 second review of something read online and calling it "research" and "facts."

One of VS Code's biggest strengths is its portability. Here's how you can help leverage that in your project. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/managing-project-with-vs-code/

For reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/14977#issuecomment-919565210

TIL: If you use the default Python extension in VS Code you have to enable Telemetry to get it to load. That is some shit right there.

My post today addresses a common issue I see in tech. TL;DR is right in the title. Yes, a college degree is still worth it. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/yes-a-college-degree-is-still-worth-it/

I wish I had 1/2 the purpose in life that my cat has.

I always like writing my annual "uses" post. This year is a bit different because I currently don't have a personal laptop but it was still fun. https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/my-development-toolbox-2021/

This morning's excitement: I have a new phone charger on my desk, non-wireless as my last one died over the weekend. What's exciting about it? It looks much better than what I had.

I am truly old.

We saw our first bald eagle of the year on this morning’s walk.

I started A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett again the other day. It is one of very few books I read over and over again every year or two and, after 20 years, it is still one of my a solute favorites.