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Culture shock of scaling back from full-time work…

As a blessing, my husband recently got promoted to full-time status at his job.  This meant that I was able to leave my full-time job that was interesting, but demanding and stressful.  After a few weeks of re-calibrating and getting a lot of home projects finished, I found that I really missed writing and coding.  [...]

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Off Topic: Finally Hit 500 on Deadlift

Yeah I know, kind of lame to announce this on a programming blog, but this is a huge thing for me. I’ve come close to 500 quite a few times but there was always something that set me back. It isn’t the best lift ever, but still happy with it overall as I didn’t cheat [...]

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Mock SQLAlchemy scoped_session query and Why Python is My BFF

sqlAlchemy has sessionmaker to create a session from which you can use query to get whatever you need. For example: someSession.query(SomeTableRepresentationObject).filter…ect If you’ve used sqlalchemy, nothing new going on here but it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t point out the obvious and take three sentences to do so. Now what you may run into [...]

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Dear Microsoft,

If it takes a whole paragraph to explain what “continue” means,  maybe you should rethink the button text and/or layout. Sincerely, Sean

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Pop Question: Why does this error exist?

So I was searching for something today and came across this: Real page. Can you find the (possible) humor in this and why you don’t allow error pages like this to EVER show?

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