Understandably wary employers reflect US prisons’ dystopian state as criminal colleges, in part causing a recidivism feedback loop. Many clever convicts are desperate to break that loop. Jury’s out, but hopefully we’ll do some redeeming in the US for once.

Articles like these seem like the mirrored, corporate perspective on a thriving tech labor market, flush with advancement opportunities for IT and software professionals. Muster your discipline and ambition, learn some new skills, and carpe diem!

With an unemployment rate well less than half the national average, skilled IT professionals are in high demand right now as companies scramble to gather the talent necessary to complete planned IT infrastructure modernization projects.

From Tim Sweeney’s Twitter, Apple refuses to reinstate Epic’s ability to market or support Apple’s iOS and macOS hardware until all appeals are exhausted or Epic submits and kisses Apple’s ring.

To circumvent ICANN’s dominion over the internet’s root, the IPFS blog argues for a Domain Naming revolution using Handshake Naming where decentralized Top Level Domain listings are stored in a blockchain with IPFS P2P data delivery ensuring persistence.

The Handshake project intends to create a decentralized authority for a decentralized internet where Top Level Domains are created, secured, and evaluated through trade and consensus - rather than the unchallenged global prerogative of ICANN.

What is IPFS? It’s the Inter Planetary File System, a new internet protocol built with forward thinking fitting its name. Here’s a brief overview on what exactly the developers over at IPFS built and how it works delivered in mostly understandable terms.

The agile methods are diluted to the point of formlessness and implemented without substance as corporate giants continue rendering it into a meaningless marketing term. Agile is dead, long live agile.

YouTube presentation from one of the creators of the agile Manifesto bemoaning how popularized agile implementations actually hamper agility, contrary to its founding principles.

Thinking is hard. Take it seriously. Do it yourself. Delegating your thinking is no different than allowing others’ ideas to possess your mind. Practice pondering deliberately and see where your mind takes you