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Musings of an Earth-bound carbon-based life form.

2022
Mar 25, 2022
There's no place like ~
2021
Jun 29, 2021
Observations on the complexity of software
Jun 10, 2021
Systems programming is hard
Jun 8, 2021
Sorry your tests are so slow...
Jun 4, 2021
So... emacs? Can we hang out?
2020
Dec 30, 2020
Things that I'm grateful for
2019
May 29, 2019
eBPF map lookup
May 1, 2019
An introduction to ptrace
Apr 1, 2019
Constants of Software Development
2018
Jul 1, 2018
AWS Glue Python Script Dependencies
May 24, 2018
AWS Batch with Spot Block
Apr 30, 2018
AWS Batch and GPU-based Workloads
2017
Oct 16, 2017
Lambda routing
Sep 6, 2017
AWS How To Deploy static files to S3 and code to Lambda with Pipelines
Jul 31, 2017
High Throughput SNS with C#
Jun 21, 2017
VMWare AHCI Driver Woes
Jun 16, 2017
A personal photo gallery V1: S3, Lambda and Rekognition
Jun 12, 2017
Growing your FreeNAS USB root partition
2015
Oct 15, 2015
How to scope Filters for JAX-RS services
Oct 12, 2015
How to replace Faraday middleware
Oct 9, 2015
The value of boring
Oct 5, 2015
SOA for Humans
Sep 21, 2015
The birth of the monolith
Aug 22, 2015
Setting Boundaries in Your Code
Jul 20, 2015
Carving up the Monorail
Jul 12, 2015
Guiding Principles for Building Services
Apr 9, 2015
Thoughts on Dependencies
Mar 9, 2015
Moving fast (into sharp corners)
2014
Nov 3, 2014
Kenshō, a PostgreSQL dashboard for ops folks
Oct 25, 2014
Orchestration of Chef Resources with ZooKeeper
Sep 25, 2014
Book: Chef Essentials
Sep 25, 2014
Interfaces in Ruby
Sep 24, 2014
Thoughts about Fog.io
Aug 9, 2014
Webinar: Automating your infrastructure with Chef
Apr 23, 2014
Compiling psycopg2 under Mavericks
2013
May 10, 2013
Capping Riak Memory Consumption
May 10, 2013
Mounting LVM partitions from Xen Server
Apr 22, 2013
Rackspace Cloud load balancers and WebSockets
Mar 4, 2013
Sphinx, MacTeX and Macports
Jan 23, 2013
Java's date formatter is not thread safe
Jan 20, 2013
Converting between Proj4 and WKT with Python
Jan 20, 2013
Creating a custom CRS with GeoTools
2012
Dec 30, 2012
USGS Elevation Data with Java
Dec 21, 2012
Migrating your Chef Server
Nov 20, 2012
DAO Testing with Hibernate
Nov 12, 2012
Python has a simple HTTP server
Nov 12, 2012
Xen DomU clock issues
Nov 11, 2012
Custom Serialization of Models with Jackson
Nov 10, 2012
PostGIS with Hibernate Spatial and Dropwizard
Nov 9, 2012
Using Sphinx for RESTful API docs
Oct 29, 2012
Riak MapReduce with Ruby
Oct 1, 2012
Ruby Enterprise Edition and Ubuntu 12.04
Aug 18, 2012
GeoTools, Maven and JAI, Oh My!
May 1, 2012
Unsetting ZFS share settings on Solaris 11
2011
Aug 24, 2011
Using PGOPTIONS to stop statement timeouts
May 30, 2011
VRDP and VirtualBox
Mar 25, 2011
MySQL, Sub-selects and IN()
Mar 11, 2011
Testing asynchronous workers
Mar 9, 2011
Using Rails controller actions from IRB
Mar 8, 2011
Managing background processes
Mar 1, 2011
Raw disks in VMWare ESXi
Mar 1, 2011
Rid yourself of NWAM
2010
Jul 29, 2010
bash pipes, sub-processes and variables
Jul 29, 2010
Capistrano doesn't play well with background jobs
Apr 6, 2010
Using OpenDNS as a site filter
0001
Jan 1, 0001
About Me
Jan 1, 0001
Connect
Jan 1, 0001
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