A classic parable
November 07, 2024A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a…
It's a trope
November 11, 2022Dev makes a blog to learn some tech. Dev proceeds to neglect said blog for several months. I’m not saying I’m going to update regularly…
A couple lists
April 28, 2021Things that should persist after the pandemic is over: (An incomplete list) Handwashing Wearing masks as needed or desired Remote work…
What I should have written was...
November 05, 2020After posting that horrible thing yesterday, I realized I dropped the ball. What I should have written was: It is a truth universally…
Shitposting as self-care
November 04, 2020It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that for every epsilon, there exists a delta such that…
Intent vs. Impact
September 17, 2020You may have heard variants of the expression “Impact is more important than intent” before and had trouble understanding how to act on that…
More than meets the eye
September 14, 2020You know. Now that I think of it, it kind of seems like my interest in collecting and reading about Robots From Space That Turn Into Other…
Okay but...
September 09, 2020Can we take a second to appreciate how good a book title Sid Meier’s Memoir! is?
Code as distraction
July 21, 2020The thing about a crisis is that normal stuff goes on, but it all feels alien or even hostile (how dare the garbage get picked up like…
Black Lives Matter
June 07, 2020That’s it. That’s the post.
Bug Reduction (probably) isn't the goal
May 05, 2020I was looking over a document at work today talking about bug filing and triage process, and ran across a line in it that jumped out at me…
Short-form posts
April 27, 2020I’m finding that I keep trying to write long-form posts, and in the process, I’m finding ten new things I want to tweak in the blog code…
Tools and Tradeoffs
March 11, 2020One of the consequences of using the set of tooling I did to build this site is that, as is usual with tools in software, I had to make…
I. Am. Employed.
March 05, 2020My job search is finally over, and I’ll be starting at Sift on March 23rd! This job search was rough for a number of reasons, so I thought…
Getting sick while job hunting sucks
February 28, 2020Okay, so while I got the first post hurdle out of the way, I failed at the “don’t take too long to get a second post up” trope. Not that I…
The First Post
February 07, 2020For me, when it comes to writing things, the only thing worse than a blank page is an empty blog. Getting started is the hardest part, and…