Kyle Cordes – Software, Business, and Life

After several years with a traditional full-height mechanical keyboard with clicky blue switches, I no longer want to annoy people in online meetings with the noise, and I missed the flatter profile of Apple’s keyboards. A brief perusal of popular recent...

Do we still call it “personal news”?
After ~22 years, I’ve left the company I founded in 2001, and the other I cofounded more recently. I’m briefly retired (!), but likely back in the game in 2023.
My contact information at my old work… no longer works. Personal email shown in the ridiculous image below, to foil spammer-scrapers in text....

The best time to blog about something is when it happens. The second best time is when you remember years later that you should have blogged about it. That’s now.
I’ve worked on complex source control system migrations, moving between various systems, most commonly SVN to Git. There are hundreds or thousands of tools and scripts around the Internet suggested for every plausible migration pair; almost all of which...

After reading articles about the large and growing popularity of “streamers” on Twitch and YouTube, I wondered what all the hubbub was about. So over the last few weeks, I have dipped into several dozen streams. Mostly on twitch, a little on YouTube...