Connor Smyth

I’ve been learning music theory this year and wanted to share some of my insights and specific learnings that I thought might be useful. A little history of music and me I have been playing music on-and-off-since I was about eight years old. It began when my Dad gave me his old 1970s/80s (I don’t ...

Unconventional Success David F. Swenson 416 pages This is the first book I have read to introduce me to the world of personal finance. I found it very valuable but I also felt that much of it could be skipped over. I would recommend reading chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, and 11 for sure. I ...

Hello again! It’s been a while since I’ve done a book update. 2020 has now come to a close and I have finished many books since my last update. The exact number that I have finished since my last update is 18. Because of the high volume of books in this update I’ve decided to ...

The United States wastes about 40% of its food production. To put it in simpler terms this would be like throwing out five McDonalds cheeseburgers per person per day, every day.

This may just end up being a blog where I talk about all the books I have read with the occasional musing about what technologies I have been working with recently.

Let’s start with the fact that it is very difficult to get a client to agree to include testing in the project’s budget for both new and ongoing projects. Although trying to perform testing without the client’s support is hard, testing can sometimes save a project.