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18 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Finale
18 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Part 5
18 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Interlude
18 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Part 4
18 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Part 3
17 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Part 2
14 Apr, 2025 The Millennial SaaS-era Retrospective: Part 1
13 Apr, 2025 Great leaders and poor leaders
07 Jun, 2024 The ambiguity tolerance threshold
02 Jun, 2024 Notes on Spanner, Google's massively distributed database
26 May, 2024 Notes on Lashley's search for the engram
19 May, 2024 Notes on Darwin, an adaptable caching system for CDNs
12 May, 2024 Notes on ChatGPT forecasting stock prices based on news headlines
05 May, 2024 Notes on compute-optimal training of large language models
26 Apr, 2024 Notes on hiring and the stable marriage problem
26 Apr, 2024 Salesforce buying Informatica is a signal that enterprise SaaS is now a mature industry
21 Apr, 2024 Notes on ACM survey of social network analysis techniques
07 Aug, 2023 Minimizing time to value
10 May, 2023 The simple common characteristics of great engineering managers
01 May, 2023 Good management is measured in years
30 Apr, 2023 Learning from what past me learned
25 Jun, 2022 The last mile
22 Jun, 2022 The early 1970s
25 Apr, 2022 The saddle
18 Jun, 2020 The weakness of weapons
11 May, 2020 A football-inspired training program for tech teams
02 Apr, 2020 Know where your cash comes from
23 Mar, 2020 Real constraints and self-imposed constraints
17 Mar, 2020 Future-planning
26 Jan, 2020 The creative work
26 Nov, 2019 Asking better questions
19 Nov, 2019 You should have a coach / you should be a coach
03 Jul, 2017 Self-mastery
27 Jan, 2017 Fast
28 Dec, 2016 Closing out the 2016 writings
07 Dec, 2016 My top books of 2016
30 Nov, 2016 Hypertrophy
04 Nov, 2016 October's Very Own
30 Sep, 2016 September, or fifteen minutes
28 Aug, 2016 An August recap on the road again
31 Jul, 2016 July, or the things I learned without breakfast
08 Jul, 2016 June: Work
30 May, 2016 A May recap
29 Apr, 2016 An April recap, or drowning the small things with the big ones
21 Apr, 2016 Prince
07 Apr, 2016 How to develop mental toughness
06 Apr, 2016 Python modules ranked on usage and what that says about the Python ecosystem
31 Mar, 2016 A March recap, or an experiment in moderating moderation
25 Mar, 2016 I am overjoyed for the Node community
07 Mar, 2016 How to Read All of the Books You Want in a Month
29 Feb, 2016 A February Recap or What Life is Like Without Coffee
29 Jan, 2016 A January recap and some personal experiments
26 Dec, 2015 A year on the road in 2015
31 Oct, 2015 An introductory look at Erlang
29 Oct, 2015 Setting up a simple testing tool with Selenium and PhantomJS
27 Oct, 2015 The xv6 filesystem
26 Oct, 2015 Pipes and such
22 Oct, 2015 The fast inverse square root algorithm
21 Oct, 2015 nginx won't timeout, and other tails from the log files
21 Oct, 2015 Forks and file descriptors - an intro to Unix concepts
17 Oct, 2015 What does systemd do?
17 Oct, 2015 What does systemctl do?
17 Oct, 2015 How are PIDs assigned?
16 Oct, 2015 Up and Running with Flask on a Brand New Linode
13 May, 2015 Preventing file dupes in files uploaded through Django
21 Apr, 2015 I dove deep into a Django migration so you don't have to
19 Apr, 2015 Learning closures and decorators
12 Apr, 2015 Type experiments with mypy
11 Apr, 2015 PyCon 2015: Day Two Keynote from Guido van Rossum
11 Apr, 2015 Testing requests, wheel packages, and visual diffing
10 Apr, 2015 Python at Disney Animation
10 Apr, 2015 PyCon 2015: First Notes
16 Feb, 2015 Cloning Postgres to Mongo in real time with Django
15 Feb, 2015 The psychology of a small playlist on repeat
12 Feb, 2015 Seeding a database with queues and threading
31 Jan, 2015 The first time I felt like an engineer
29 Jan, 2015 Exploring the math module
23 Jan, 2015 Object presentation with pprint
21 Jan, 2015 String presentation with textwrap
20 Jan, 2015 A short word on StringIO
18 Jan, 2015 Examining audio files with sndhdr
17 Jan, 2015 The images are coming from INSIDE the bytestreams
15 Jan, 2015 Mostly insecure cryptography and crypt()
14 Jan, 2015 Did you know there's a color system called YIQ?
13 Jan, 2015 Combining pickle and anydbm to form shelve
12 Jan, 2015 Storing objects with the best-named module ever, pickle
06 Jan, 2015 More high performance iterable work with bisect
05 Jan, 2015 And here I was thinking arrays were for Javascript and lists were for Python
30 Dec, 2014 Saving yourself from command line parsing hell with argparse
22 Dec, 2014 DBM - non-relational databases before that was a thing
22 Dec, 2014 Rocking out with aifc
21 Dec, 2014 What in heaven's name is an abstract base class?
20 Dec, 2014 Exploring the __future__ module and learning about division
19 Dec, 2014 Hacking __builtin__ for fun, no profit
30 Oct, 2014 Cooking my first ever Drupal theme from scratch
26 Aug, 2014 The Magic in the Machine
03 Apr, 2014 Hacking Confirmation Emails on the Fly with Mailgun
26 Mar, 2014 Open Source Search Technologies for Human Beings - Part 3
25 Mar, 2014 Open Source Search Technologies for Human Beings - Part 2
24 Mar, 2014 Open Source Search Technologies for Human Beings - Part 1