At GUTS we have a “hack day” each month. During this day the devteam deviates from the regular story board and people work individually or in teams on interesting, somewhat related projects and experiments or experiment with new frameworks or languages. My recent project was to build a generics based cache to replace all the custom, ad-hoc memory caches we currently have with all the quirky type assertions. The implementation is pretty straightforward - generics work and behave as you expect and the end result is a nice usable generic cache…

I recently purchased a tile “tag” to see how it works and if it would be usable for my mother to track her cat when it’s outside. I might document my findings later, but signing up for Tile didn’t get off to a good start: when registering, it tricked me into signing up for their mailinglist up with a negated-and-by-default-unchecked “do not spam me” checkbox. Tile signup Really Tile?…