Humor

Essays and stories with an unhealthy amount of sarcasm.

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I am a Screenshare, not a Phishing Vector

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s 2021. We’re somewhere between one and thirteen years into the pandemic. Time isn’t really relevant any more, but what is relevant is what the hell is going on in your Zoom / Slack / Teams / Skype / Google Meets screensharing session. I’ve worked remotely for a decade, as have many of my colleagues.

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Reading Time: 7 minutesI usually write about front-end things or CMS things or node.js things. Sometimes a little of all three. This is about all of those things at once. And it’s about how I think that, sometimes, enterprises are fucking dumb. Note: The views expressed in here are not those of my employer. They are the views

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Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you’ve been following these adventures in schadenfreude Europe, you should be well-aware that Amsterdam is not necessarily the most navigable of places for beginning a journey. But like all things which are European, the intraversable nature of Amsterdam can also be conquered. In today’s episode, we do a general wrap-up of the first Amsterdam

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn episode 1 of Frank vs. Europe we saw our dashingly handsome — and surprisingly short — hero fly into The Netherlands on the wings of a ghastly metal, time-warping bird, and tour the Land of Neder with his powerful side kick, Piti — who has the gift of an inner google. In today’s episode

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Reading Time: 4 minutesA few months ago I got a rare opportunity. I was invited to speak at a conference. In Amsterdam. Robert Curlette was hosting the first ever Tridion Developer Summit, and, as an MVP, I was extended the opportunity to stand in front of people and run my mouth about code or what-have-you. If you know

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo, my wife and I are adopting. A good friend recommends a book on babies. For me. He sends me a link to ThinkGeek.com, as he knows that I am likely to trust this website as an authority on miniature humans. 

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Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been working for the last month or two on some super cool mobile templates for a client. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we’ve pulled out all of the awesome for this. If Tridion were a person, it would be peeing its kilt with excitement every day — even though it definitely isn’t wearing

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Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m a fan of Dexter. A big fan, actually. I’ve read most of the books. I’ve watched every episode, and again on DVD and BlueRay. I’ve re-adjusted my work schedule and rearranged my entire wake sleep cycle to make sure I didn’t miss an episode. And then the finale happened, and yes, I have some