The Book of CP-System
New book called "The Book of CP-System" is an amazing trip down the technical memory road of the legendary CPS-1 board that powered classics like "Street Fighter II".…
TIL About a comparison table of Google internal tools to external products
Link to comparison table of internal Google tools to external publicly available tools.…
Battle of the Text Editors
I have always liked text editors. There is something promising about them, a blank canvas that you can quickly mess up with your random commented out lines. I went from BBEdit, my favorite Mac app of all time (seriously I love this app so much I bought a tshirt with…
Grief and Programming
Once again I asked, “Father, I want to know what a dying person feels when no one will speak with him, nor be open enough to permit him to speak, about his dying.” The old man was quiet, and we sat without speaking for nearly an hour. Since he did…
Consider using Kubernetes ephemeral debug container
I'll admit I am late to learning these exist. About once a month, maybe more, I need to spin up some sort of debug container inside of Kubernetes. It's usually for something trivial like checking networking or making sure DNS isn't being weird and…
Programming in the Apocalypse
A climate change what-if Over a few beers... Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies on…
Fig Terminal Auto-complete Review
My entire career there has been a wide gap between CLI applications and GUI applications. GUIs are easier to use at first, they have options to provide more direct feedback to users, but they also can have odd or confusing behavior. Endlessly spinning wheels, error messages that don't…
Don't Write Your Own Kubernetes YAML Generator
Modern infrastructure work is, by many measures, better than it has ever been. We live in a time when a lot of the routine daily problems have been automated away by cloud providers, tooling or just improved workflows. However in the place of watching OS upgrades has come the endless…