Thoughts & Opinions
Sometimes thoughts, sometimes opinions, rarely edited.
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The story of a request
Observability is taking the model in your head and pressing it into the code so the thing can explain itself.
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Explain yourself right now!
Observability engineering is pretty simple but these days it seems like it’s becoming an impossibility. Back in the before times, when we had to write the…
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I like to put stickers on things
I like to put stickers on things. I like to put stickers on things because it’s a good way to keep things organized and know stuff at a glance. My first…
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Vibe hiring
The coining of the phrase vibe coding was a big revelation for me. It gave me the word “vibe” to use again but in the context of work. Vibe coding is what…
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I'll take a complex system over hidden nonsense any day
I love diving into hidden systems. They've always been a fun puzzle for me to solve. Undocumented, mysterious, black boxes sitting in the corner of the…
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Set up billing alarms please :)
I've gotten a couple of chuckles and almost a whole chortle from LinkedIn posts about runaway AWS bills. You have too, don't lie. Or you got smacked by…
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a vs an
A comes before words that start with a consonant sound.
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nohup vs &
I've gotten a lot of questions in my time about firing off a long running process in an ssh session and having them stop after logging out. This is…
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Another useful if macro
I'm working on a project now that requires a lot of lines like,
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Clojure @
Of all the weird symbols in the Clojure language, one of my favorites is @. Good ol' deref. It's necessary, but for reasons that weren't intuitive to me.
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Queues in clojure
Without the idea of a first in, first out (FIFO) queue, maintaining order would be very difficult. Or maybe, it's the other way around. Six to one, half a…
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An Introduction to map, filter, and reduce
Higher order functions are a powerful tool for functional programmers. The idea of higher order functions/functions as data has given rise to three…