Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...
How I became “glue”
As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...
Don’t buy tech from somebody you meet in Church
If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever "we're part of the same group, you can trust me," then you...
Software is hard
A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...
SCE to AUX
DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....
AWS, AWS, and More AWS
It's been a summer of AWS for me....
To Optimize, or Not?
You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to...
Low-level understanding matters
If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....
The horrors of open source!
It's possible to simplify the "normal" things for normal users while still providing source code and repositories that allow us strange creatures to continue experimenting,...
SCaLE 16x Wrapup
I had a great time at SCaLE 16x the past four days. SCaLE was one of the first big conferences I went to when I...