I am not Spock. But I wanted to be. And that was a problem.
Leonard Nimoy’s death is still a recent thing as I write this. He was, of course, most famous for playing Spock, the logical Vulcan in the original Star Trek TV… Read more »
Author Archives: Kevin Matheny
Tablet games recommendations
I’ve recently discovered Dream Quest and am enjoying the heck out of it. If I may quote myself: If you have an iPad, and you have not played Dream Quest,… Read more »
Quick reference for 5e D&D racial stat bonuses
Quick reference for racial stat bonuses in 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
Sometimes the decisions are easy.
About 15 months ago, I left Best Buy, where I’d been for 13 years. I joined Digital River to help transform the platform and the company. Today, my colleagues there learned… Read more »
DevOpsDays Minneapolis 2014: Comments
I spent last Thursday and Friday morning at the DevOpsDays conference. It was a good experience, and featured some truly excellent presentations, including an opening keynote by Sascha Bates that… Read more »
Shandar Ben Bransvik lives on.
You may not know it, but I’m in the credits of a bunch of computer games. I’ve been playtesting games for Digital Eel for years. If you don’t know Digital… Read more »
Slicing: good for bread, bad for people
A loaf of bread is, in most cases, improved by slicing it. This is because a loaf of bread is more than you need; you can make a whole thing… Read more »
Instead of celebrating failure, let’s do science.
One of the closely held tenets of agile software development is that we should “fail fast” – we need to do the thing that’s commonly referred to as failure, because… Read more »
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
When Inigo says to Vizzini “I don’t think (that word) means what you think it means,” it’s possible that he’s making a remarkably insightful statement about both of them. I’m… Read more »
Sleepwalking down memory lane
I have this feeling that I’ve written about this before, but I can’t find it in my blog, or in Michael’s. And looking back through the last year of posts… Read more »