Dan Lynn

H.R 2454 contains a provision to pay tax (aka “your”) dollars to low-income households to offset the “estimated loss in purchasing power resulting from this Act”. What does this mean? Everybody loses purchasing power as a result of this legislation, but only low-income families get the privilige of a refund funded by taxes–taxes which are 67.7% funded by the top 10% of income earners (social security excluded). The only way this makes sense is if you think that people become rich by stealing from others, as opposed to the (much more reasonable) concept that they produce goods and services that benefit society as a whole in addition to themselves.

We just recently moved our continuous integration server to new hardware and removed a costly database comparison step, which shortened our build time from 10 minutes to less than 3. Half the time is spent on unit tests, and we include a build versioning step which prepares every build for potential release.

Cutting those seven minutes out of the feedback loop may not seem like much, but when you consider that we average about 20 builds per day that’s significant savings, even if there were only one developer waiting on the build results each time. Next up: database versioning using liquibase.

I’m excited for spring to arrive. It’s been far too long since I’ve been up in the air without the roar of a jet engine and the annoying beeps and dings of the seatbeat-sign.

My Wing - Advance Epsilon 4

It was too windy to fly that day

I finally got ahold of the domain danlynn.com. I had to wait about 5 years for this other Dan Lynn who lives in Sugar Hill, Georgia to cede the domain, but it’s mine now. Posts might be photography, bits of code, experiments in the kitchen, paragliding horror stories, or anything else that I find interesting that I think a few people might appreciate as well.