I have a long history of loving text editors. Their simplicity and purity of design is appealing to me, as is their long lifespans. Writing a text editor that becomes popular really becomes a lifelong responsibility and opportunity, which is just very cool to me. They become subcultures onto themselves.…
For those of you who have spent years dealing with the nightmarish process of carefully putting EU user data in its own silo, often in its own infrastructure in a different EU region, it looks like the nightmare might be coming to an end. See the new press release here:…
What if Kubernetes was idiot-proof? Love/Hate Relationship AWS and I have spent a frightening amount of time together. In that time I have come to love that weird web UI with bizarre application naming. It's like asking an alien not familiar with humans to name things. Why…
I've wanted to write a guide for tech workers looking to leave the US and move to Denmark for awhile. I made the move over 4 years ago and finally feel like I can write on the topic with enough detail to answer most questions. Denmark gets a…
And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is…
It's all advertising, all the way down. The Robots are Coming My entire life automation has been presented as a threat. It is hard to measure how often business has threatened this to keep wages down and keep workers increasing productivity. While the mechanism of threatened automation changes…
I, like the entire internet, has enjoyed watching the journey of 37Signals from cloud to managed datacenter. For those unfamiliar, it's worth a read here. This has spawned endless debates about whether the cloud is worth it or should we all be buying hardware again, which is always…
I recently rewrote a system to output a YAML to get a bunch of information for internal users. However we use Confluence as our primary information sharing system. So I needed to parse the YAML file on GitHub (where I was pushing it after every generation), generate some HTML and…