Five-word movie review: “Project Hail Mary”
Amaze, but “The Martian” better.
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Bits on the rampage: Eric Shepherd's blog.
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One path to better documentation
When I’m tasked with documenting an API or technology, I have a general pattern of work I follow, just like every writer. Sometimes, a job dictates a specific workflow, but this is the flow I follow when I’m allowed to choose my own path. It’s a multi-step process that leads me from ideation through to [...]
Moving forth and moving on
I started working at Amazon on October 26, 2020 after spending over 14 years writing documentation for open web developers at Mozilla. My five years at Amazon Web Services involved: Creating and maintaining the AWS SDK for Swift Developer Guide Creating and maintaining code examples for the AWS SDK for Swift Maintaining the AWS SDK [...]
Five-word movie review: “Ghostbusters Afterlife”
A fun, funny, worthy successor.
Five-word movie review: “Free Guy”
Not what I expected. Wonderful!
Five-word movie review: “The Matrix Resurrections”
Easily the second best “Matrix”.
Five-word movie review: “Finch”
Charming. Funny. Sad. Delightful robot.
Five-word movie review: “Dune” (2021)
Please give me part two!
A tragedy of our making
We gave the Afghan people hope. Briefly. Now we’ve abandoned them to the fate of being overrun by and crushed under the heel of the Taliban. I get why people wanted to leave. Twenty years is a long time. But there are people in danger here. Leaving them to what’s coming their way isn’t just [...]
Five-word movie review: “The Tomorrow War”
Awesome family/time travel adventure.