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"2015-05-19T17:24:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb75-12c0-7234-b03e-8299418cf824", "title": "Node’s `require` is dog slow", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/node-require-is-dog-slow/", "published_at": "2015-04-20T07:16:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb75-12c0-7234-b03e-8299421d0df4", "title": "Beware tech companies who tell you they don’t negotiate", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/tech-cos-salary-negotiation-beware/", "published_at": "2015-04-09T13:05:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb75-12c0-7234-b03e-829942af452b", "title": "“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/invalid-username-or-password-useless/", "published_at": "2014-12-01T19:09:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb75-12c0-7234-b03e-829942cb55da", "title": "Profiling ZSH startup time", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/profiling-zsh-startup-time/", "published_at": "2014-11-29T22:37:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb75-12c0-7234-b03e-829943ca37dd", "title": "Ready Player One and a 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"title": "Storing Photos for the Long Term", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/long-term-photo-storage/", "published_at": "2014-07-22T18:41:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-46bb-723c-bb6b-89c71a6cb047", "title": "Figure out when long-running jobs finish, without stopping them", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/the-fg-command-stop-long-running-jobs/", "published_at": "2014-07-22T03:47:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-46bb-723c-bb6b-89c71b690e99", "title": "Easy maintenance of your AUTHORS file", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/easy-maintenance-of-your-authors-file/", "published_at": "2014-06-04T01:14:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-46bb-723c-bb6b-89c71bb8da04", "title": "The SSL library ecosystem needs diversity", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/openssl-diversity/", "published_at": "2014-04-21T13:53:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb78-46bb-723c-bb6b-89c71c1956a6", "title": "Source code stolen from Github.com", "url": "https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/source-code-stolen-github/", 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Why Can’t Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?original ↗

17 Jun 2026

How to fix the NBA Draft original ↗

12 Feb 2026

2025

Speeding up Javascript Test Time 1000x original ↗

30 Oct 2025

Let Us Open URLs in a Specific Browser Profile original ↗

29 Oct 2025

github.com/garyburd/redigo has been deleted original ↗

25 May 2025

Transcript of Oval Office meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky, JD Vance, and Donald Trump – February 28, 2025 original ↗

28 Feb 2025

Cities Can Cost Effectively Start Their Own Utilities Now original ↗

7 Feb 2025

2022

How to Ventilate Your House original ↗

23 Aug 2022

How much does a San Francisco Chronicle subscription cost?original ↗

6 Jun 2022

Sour Punch Strawberry changed their formula original ↗

16 May 2022

Get Urgent Care from One Medical original ↗

2 May 2022

You Can Build a Skyscraper Anywhere in Davis Right Now original ↗

10 Jan 2022

2021

Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens original ↗

6 Dec 2021

Different Realms, Different TLD’s original ↗

11 Oct 2021

Fast, Parallel Database Tests original ↗

1 Oct 2021

Where are Datadog’s US1 and US3 data centers located?original ↗

4 Aug 2021

John Elberling is Probably Cheating On His Taxes original ↗

21 Jul 2021

Cheap ideas for slowing down speeding cars original ↗

5 Jun 2021

Preferred Stock and Common Stock Aren’t The Same original ↗

29 Mar 2021

How to Force a Recall Election for the SF School Board original ↗

29 Jan 2021

Decline the 15 Minute Post-Vaccination Waiting Period original ↗

19 Jan 2021

2020

How to Get a Human Operator on the California EDD Paid Family Leave line original ↗

15 Sept 2020

Let employees sell their equity original ↗

9 Sept 2020

Building a better home network original ↗

4 Sept 2020

To Predict If You’ll Like a Beer, Look at the Hops original ↗

23 Aug 2020

If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question original ↗

9 May 2020

2019

Using a Bernzomatic TS8000 Kitchen Torch to Sear Meat original ↗

1 Jul 2019

Phone Number for SFMTA Temporary Sign Office original ↗

12 Mar 2019

Using an AWS Aurora Postgres Database as a Source for Database Manager Service original ↗

12 Mar 2019

Going Solo, Successfully original ↗

17 Feb 2019

2018

Improving Bike+Bus Routes through Belmont Village original ↗

7 Oct 2018

Why is Caltrain spending $2 billion on electrification & closing SF on the weekends?original ↗

25 Sept 2018

Proposed SSF East Side Station Exit Prioritizes Cars, Not Caltrain Passengers original ↗

13 Sept 2018

Research on railway suicides and steps Caltrain could take original ↗

11 Sept 2018

Bike and pedestrian improvements east of the South San Francisco Caltrain station original ↗

2 Sept 2018

AWS’s response to ALB internal validation failures original ↗

20 Jul 2018

Amazon’s ALB’s do not validate TLS certificates from internal services original ↗

10 Jul 2018

Otto LLC Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (bankruptcy)original ↗

6 Jul 2018

Opportunity for more affordable housing in Belmont original ↗

23 May 2018

Housing by the numbers original ↗

9 May 2018

Profile Anything in Any Language in Under a Minute original ↗

26 Apr 2018

Where is everyone going to live?original ↗

27 Mar 2018

How to write Go middleware original ↗

20 Mar 2018

Historically Significant Laundromats original ↗

16 Feb 2018

2017

You Shouldn’t Use Faker (or other test randomization libraries)original ↗

4 Nov 2017

Proxying to a subcommand with Go original ↗

23 Oct 2017

Running Bazel tests on Travis CI original ↗

22 Oct 2017

Make your Go Binaries Homebrew Installable original ↗

16 Oct 2017

CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens original ↗

10 Oct 2017

Let’s talk about Javascript string encoding original ↗

1 Sept 2017

Things to Use Instead of JWT original ↗

8 May 2017

Pragmatic Web Development in Go original ↗

10 Apr 2017

We Can’t Keep Ignoring the Bay’s Housing Politics original ↗

30 Mar 2017

Why Leap Seconds are Tricky and How to Deal With Them original ↗

3 Jan 2017

2016

Ethical Considerations for Software Engineers original ↗

15 Dec 2016

Tradeoffs in Software Provisioning Tools original ↗

27 Nov 2016

An API Client that’s Faster than the API original ↗

7 Nov 2016

Election Guide (Part 2) – CA Ballot Propositions, State Senate, more original ↗

24 Oct 2016

San Francisco Voting Guide – Propositions and Supervisors original ↗

16 Oct 2016

Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space original ↗

3 Sept 2016

More Comment-Preserving Configuration Parsers original ↗

2 Aug 2016

Real Life Go Benchmarking original ↗

3 Jul 2016

Cleaning up Parallel Tests in Go 1.7 original ↗

16 Jun 2016

Buying stocks without a time limit original ↗

7 Jun 2016

Six Years of Hacker News Comments about Twilio original ↗

27 May 2016

A Two Month Debugging Story original ↗

26 May 2016

The Frustration and Loneliness of Server-Side Javascript Development original ↗

3 May 2016

Go Concurrency for Javascript Developers original ↗

7 Apr 2016

The TSA Randomizer iPad App Cost $1.4 Million original ↗

3 Apr 2016

YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED: STOCK AWARD NOTICE (Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05)original ↗

18 Feb 2016

Encoding and Decoding JSON, with Go’s net/http package original ↗

12 Feb 2016

How to push to multiple Github accounts from the same machine original ↗

9 Feb 2016

Just Return One Error original ↗

14 Jan 2016

2015

Safely Moving a Large Shrinkwrapped Dependency original ↗

27 Dec 2015

Everything you need to know about state machines original ↗

18 Nov 2015

Weird Tricks to Write Faster, More Correct Database Queries original ↗

13 Oct 2015

Maybe Automatically Updating Dependencies Isn’t a Great Idea original ↗

26 Sept 2015

Avoid Priming Interview Candidates original ↗

23 Sept 2015

Don’t Use Sails (or Waterline)original ↗

6 Sept 2015

Stepping Up Your Pull Request Game original ↗

31 Aug 2015

Logging Database Queries in CircleCI original ↗

25 Aug 2015

Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem original ↗

19 May 2015

Node’s `require` is dog slow original ↗

20 Apr 2015

Beware tech companies who tell you they don’t negotiate original ↗

9 Apr 2015

2014

“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure original ↗

1 Dec 2014

Profiling ZSH startup time original ↗

29 Nov 2014

Ready Player One and a Dystopian View of Future Oil Prices original ↗

4 Sept 2014

Hacking Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms original ↗

1 Aug 2014

Use a VPN original ↗

30 Jul 2014

Nix: caveat emptor original ↗

26 Jul 2014

Levelers original ↗

24 Jul 2014

Storing Photos for the Long Term original ↗

22 Jul 2014

Figure out when long-running jobs finish, without stopping them original ↗

22 Jul 2014

Easy maintenance of your AUTHORS file original ↗

4 Jun 2014

The SSL library ecosystem needs diversity original ↗

21 Apr 2014

Source code stolen from Github.com original ↗

15 Apr 2014

Go to Hong Kong Disneyland original ↗

14 Apr 2014

A look at the new retry behavior in urllib3 original ↗

24 Mar 2014

2013

How to create rich links in your Sphinx documentation original ↗

29 Dec 2013

New blog post about HAProxy original ↗

20 Oct 2013