A place where I share my values.
I’ve long liked sharing my thoughts but want a place that is mine to hold them. I plan to mostly post quick notes or what I’m calling postcards whenever I feel like it, and likely syndicate those out to @mcl@zarus.me and mclazarus.bsky.social. The articles and backstage posts will be less frequent but I hope to keep them higher quality.
There are the following types of posts you’ll find on here:
My father’s “Programming on the Side” company and my own love of solving hard problems have me wondering about building an objective, principle-based system of troubleshooting.
I tell the story of a lone hero engineer who fixes the crisis at 2:37 AM and gets grilled instead of thanked, and argue that needing heroics is a sign of a sick company.
A tribute to Michelle Young of Bristol, PA, who accepted my proposal in December 2001, with the wedding set for July 12, 2003, 134 days away.
The obituary for my father, Joseph E. McAllister (1948 to 2003)
At NYCC earlier this month walking around the vendors area a book title caught my eye Other Worlds than These.
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As a self-proclaimed constant reader who started his Stephen King journey with The Gunslinger I was immediately captivated and further shocked to see this was a collaboration by Stephen King and Peter Straub. This is book three in the Talisman trilogy (???)
It has just been released and today I just started listening to it.
There’s an off color joke in here somewhere
Austin, United States
Apparently racing armadillos is an option
Austin, United States
Claude Code was the end result of all you fools who lost in Space Invaders
Haddon Township, NJ