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The cycle begins again as it’s the first day of our summer term. Feeling odd as it’s the first time since Covid that I have a traditional on-campus only course.

The more I deal with IT organizations in higher education, the more I understand how they don't understand the needs of software development.

There is a lot of Sturm and Drang among educators regarding the recent security breach involving the Canvas LMS. But there is another important point to consider: how the move to cloud-based hosted services has become a single point of failure for higher education infrastructure. I decided it was worth an op-ed blog post. adamwadelewis.com/the-canvas-sec…

One of the great truths about beach towns is to find the bar frequented by the locals. It’s a much better party than the tourist traps:

Today’s “nope,nope,nope”: pickle pizza. 🤢🤮

The Division of Mathematical, Computer, and Applied Sciences of the College of Arts and Sciences of Athens State University congratulates the Spring 2026 graduates of our CS, IT, and Cybersecurity programs. Be well, do good work, and come back and visit!

One of the less pleasant aspect of 'adulting' is having to do things you don't enjoy in the hope that someday you might be able to do the things you enjoy doing.

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one.

Someone decided to sage our building to get of evil spirits. For some reason I can’t get into my office.

Friday feeling: “My brain hurts!” youtu.be/1ybAw78mStI?si…

Been a month since I had to do a double header day in the (virtual) classroom. That’s a tough day in normal times but harder while in recovery. Made it through and… on we go.

<RANT> Sigh, sometimes I think students just think we don't read their submissions with the way they cut-and-paste from ChatGPT or Claude. They just don't realize how boilerplate that writing is, whether it's prose or code. </RANT>

What I find disturbing about the email issues on the Orion capsule? Apparently you can be an astronaut going to the moon and your boss still expects you to check your messages.

One of things I was told to do to speed up my recovery was to regularly walk for at least 15 minutes each day. After a month, as the path I’ve worn into back yard attests, I am now up nearly 0.5 miles every day,

From the cool but mildly creepy department: the security camera I have focused on my driveway caught this picture of a bumblebee flying in front of the camera.

Here’s an odd sort-of-culinary thought: found a boxed miso broth at the grocery. Wondering if might be combined with Bloody Mary mix, a bit of beef broth, and vodka to make an oddly pseudo-Japanese version of a bullshot.

OK, so don't do a workplace climate survey when you're torqued-off about something workplace related. Punted out of the survey before hitting commit when I realized just how much of a contrarian curmudgeon I was being.

Very interesting thoughts and opinions from one of the leading lights in the C++ community. herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/sof…

A fair question: Why didn’t they call suspenders “comeuppants”?