In addition to picking up some tech podcasts for my commute, I also wanted to adapt my car to use Bluetooth for hands-free communication and using the car's speakers for playback. My car is old enough that it does not natively have Bluetooth but it does have a 3.5mm AUX port where I can plug devices in. The common 3.5 mm connection from the headphone jack is very common but it … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Report from Ford Foundation discusses the collective technical debt of our digital infrastructure
In a report titled Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure, the Ford Foundation addresses the shared code that companies profit from and individuals benefit from. Are we contributing enough to those that maintain the programs, libraries, and other code? If not financially, are we putting in the hours to help review the code that we heavily rely on? … [Read more...]
My favorite tech podcasts
Since increasing my commute recently, I have been wanting to make my time spent driving as productive as possible. Listening to music has never really been my thing so I have been listening to audiobooks. These can be entertaining fiction or informative nonfiction but I have wanted to mix-up the reading with some technical information that can make me a better IT … [Read more...]