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Cisco Live 2025

Although Cisco Live suffers from zeitgeist mania, with this year being AI, there are still a lot of value from sessions and the tribal excitement of being with your industry peers. Either by outrig...

Origami jumping frog

This is a simple origami frog that jumps when you press on it. I was taught to make it by my parents when I was really young, so it holds a very dear place in my heart. There are other versions on ...

DevOps Newsletters

Essential weekly reads covering AWS, SRE, programming, and DevOps trends for professional development.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

8 Dos and Don'ts for the tech interview

I have been on the recruiting side a fair number of times and I hope to cover some common pitfalls and advice to help you land a nice job! Before we start I want to say this is advice from my own j...

Special Edition — Take Two

Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has approximately 307 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted ...

Packaging Session

Vibe Coding

AI has already transformed the landscape of software engineering. Not just coding, and that distinction matters. While it's easy to get models to write code, software engineering is a different cha...

【Tips】Faster Swift 6 Builds: Enabling SwiftSyntax Prebuilts

Is compiling Swift Macros slowing you down? Learn how to enable SwiftSyntax Prebuilts in Swift 6.1+ to significantly slash Xcode build times.

Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust

I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x...

FESCO Q&A

Improving Product Discovery of Tabletop RPG Maps (Preliminary Investigation)

As catalogs for digital marketplaces grow in size, customers have greater difficulty in finding products that meet their needs. Marketplace owners might improve product discovery by adding new cate...

HTTP QUERY and Go

We need another HTTP verb. I'll explain why.

Rails’ Connection Pool

In which I learn to read YAML syntax.

Introducing number and currency formaters (and more) for KMP in pale-blue-kmp-core

Native-backed currency and number formatters, plus a type-safe KmmResult wrapper that works seamlessly across iOS and Android. These additions fill long-standing gaps in the Kotlin Multiplatform to...

Leverage Red Hat Ansible to automate your IBM Power Systems

A real hoot: notes for May 2025

Documenting institutional collapse. The curse of knowledge & cursed knowledge. Workshops on connecting measurement to strategy.

Leverage Event-Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

SVGs support non-scaling strokes using the vector-effect attribute, which we can even use to draw non-scaling rectangles and circles. For example, in graphs and charts, text can become too small or...

Automating Power Virtual Servers with Ansible and AAP

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bo...