Jane Bailey

Jane Bailey is a self-published author of urban fantasy novels as well as a part-time blogger; in their day job, they're a renaissance person, dabbling in all sorts of fields in search of interesting puzzles and finding mostly WTFs.

Jun 2016

Logging, Retooled

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In every company, there is a tendency to value code that was invented in-house over code that was, to put it bluntly, Not Invented Here. There is an eternal struggle to find balance between the convenience of pre-packaged code that is not fully vetted and the trustworthiness of code they themselves have written. As is typical in these tales, Jon's company got it wrong.


A Costly Slip

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It was a lazy, drowsy Saturday afternoon. The sun was shining, birds were singing. The kind of day when children should be playing outside, perhaps running bases in a sandlot someplace, carefree and smiling. Even indoors, thanks to the cost-saving measures at Big Online Retail Store™ HQ, it was warm enough to send tantalizing daydreams of comfortable naps in soft places to the employees working the weekend shift.