Monthly Archives: January 2025

Grinding Away: Mary Spender

Posted on January 13, 2025 by way0utwest

A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led me to Mary’s page and this cover of John Mayer’s Stop This Train: Since then I’ve been following her, watching this musician build a life around … Continue reading →

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Simple(r) Coffee

Posted on January 13, 2025 by way0utwest

Starbucks has too many order combinations. This article about the challenges for their new CEO notes there are over 170,000 combinations of things customers can order. As someone who has visited a store often and stood behind someone placing an … Continue reading →

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Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments

Posted on January 10, 2025 by way0utwest

One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of writing automations streamlined. I’m not sure I love this, but I’ll … Continue reading →

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The Lesser Used Functions

Posted on January 10, 2025 by way0utwest

Recently, I reviewed an article that examined the bitwise functions that were added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2022. As I was looking over the article, I started to wonder if anyone was using these in production code. I used … Continue reading →

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