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2026

You Can't Review 50 PRs a Dayoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
The Toilet Paper Roll Testoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
Make It Cheap for Agents to Discover They're Wrongoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
I've Quit Four Good Jobsoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
Writing Software by Hand Is Overoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
I Haven't Hand-Written a PR in Monthsoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
My Dad Lost Sleep When I Left John Deereoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lieoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
How I Think About Staff Engineeringoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
Principles From Twenty Years of Software Engineeringoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026

2024

Reading Listoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
Thinking in Systems Summaryoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2024
Measure What Matters Summaryoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
When in Doubt, Iterate Fasteroriginal ↗
15 Feb 2024
How High is Your Technical Debt's Interest?original ↗
14 Feb 2024

2023

SQS Best Practicesoriginal ↗
20 May 2023
PrivacyProtect: Securely Share Passwords and Store Sensitive Files in Convenient Locationsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2023
Getting MMS Working on GrapheneOS With Google Fioriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023
Connecting to Private RDS Databases From Your Local Machineoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2023

2022

Why I Quit Drinkingoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Multi-Party Computationoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2022
The Importance of Cultivating a Deep Work Cultureoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2022

2021

Death to (Synchronous) Standupsoriginal ↗
4 May 2021
OpenAPI Spec-First API Developmentoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2021
Rust: First Impressionsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2021
Running Linux GUI Apps in Docker on Macoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2021
Start Local Services Fast in Zero Lines of Code with Docker Composeoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2021

2020

Git Fundamentalsoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2020
Full-Text Search Battle: PostgreSQL vs Elasticsearchoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2020
Scala Best Practicesoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2020
Scala Learning Resourcesoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
Kotlin: First Impressionsoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2020
Scala: The Good Partsoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2020
When IntelliJ Loses Its Mind, Run Thisoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2020

2019

Use a Script to Call It a Dayoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2019
Serverless Webhooks Talkoriginal ↗
22 May 2019
Lessons Learned From Sending Millions of Serverless Webhooksoriginal ↗
22 May 2019

2018

Hashing vs Encryptionoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2018

2017

Go Learning Resourcesoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2017
Kingman to Los Angeles via Joshua Tree National Parkoriginal ↗
23 May 2017
Flagstaff to Kingman via the Grand Canyon and Route 66original ↗
21 May 2017
Show Low to Flagstaff, I Dropped the Bikeoriginal ↗
20 May 2017
Santa Fe to Show Low in the Snow and Rainoriginal ↗
19 May 2017
Roswell to Santa Fe to Solve the Meow Wolf Mysteryoriginal ↗
18 May 2017
Marfa to Roswell to Uncover the Truth About Aliensoriginal ↗
17 May 2017
Big Bend to Marfa Where I Struggle to Live Like a Hippieoriginal ↗
16 May 2017
Del Rio to Big Bend, The Wild Westoriginal ↗
15 May 2017
Austin to Del Rio via the Best Motorcycle Road in Americaoriginal ↗
14 May 2017
Houston to Austin Where I Rest My Bike to Bikeoriginal ↗
12 May 2017
New Orleans to Houston with Most of My Stufforiginal ↗
11 May 2017
Gulf Shores to New Orleans is a Tale of Insect Mass Murderoriginal ↗
10 May 2017
Panama City to Gulf Shores via the Town from The Truman Showoriginal ↗
9 May 2017
Cedar Key to Panama City Beach's Seediest of Motelsoriginal ↗
8 May 2017
Orlando to Cedar Key on a Bike Much Bigger Than Meoriginal ↗
7 May 2017
The Test Ride Was a Near Disaster. And a Great Success.original ↗
6 May 2017
My Tentative Route Across the Countryoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2017
Motorcycling Across Americaoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2017

2012

Prime Factors Kata in Scalaoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2012
Test Before > Test Afteroriginal ↗
3 Aug 2012
Save Hours and Make Life Easier with these Free Appsoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2012
Fresh Hot 100: an App for Only the Most Recent Chart Toppersoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2012
Android Development: Casino Strategy v2.0original ↗
27 Jun 2012
Prime Factors Kata in Clojureoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2012
Farewell to John Deereoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2012
SOLID Principles to Code Byoriginal ↗
15 May 2012
Android Development: Casino Strategy v1.0original ↗
14 May 2012
Diving into Android Development in Java/Eclipseoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2012
Setting Linux System Time, Date, and Time Zoneoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2012
Command-Line Mercurialoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2012
Linux Bash Aliasesoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2012