Posts tagged "tech"

The rewrite

I talk about an old program I wrote, Feedie, and the process of rewriting it

Call Off Your Dogs

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

On having heart surgery at 32

Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or anything I’ve written about before; it’s my personal experience going through heart...

Cathy: my dear, helpful catheter

Listen, there isn’t much in this world that’s as luxurious as being able to pee whenever you want to. Imagine floating in the ocean, free at the drop of a hat, except it’s anywhere. A simple luxury...

alttab is fantastic

I use Linux, Debian to be exact, and moved from XFCE to use i3wm over two years ago. I’m very happy with my setup and I don’t see me making any changes –unless is moving to Sway when I have to use ...

The Generati

A post about students using generative AI in class

Refactoring English: Month 11

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

The rewrite dilemma in software engineering

Rewriting software can be tempting, but understanding the hidden value of accumulated fixes and system stability is key to making the right decision.

Re: Chiseling: The Art of Polishing Vibe Code

Re: https://patrickerichsen.com/chiseling Hi Pat! Oh so thrilled to see you got your personal site up and running plus a freshly minted blog post. For the reader: I know Pat from when we both worke...

You Should Write An Agent

Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...

Zürich and Vaduz

I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...

Leverage Event Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman

Running a Volleyball club with N8N

Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this article, I share how we used n8n to transform the day-to-day operations of our LG...

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW

Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.

NixCon 2025

Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...

What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Notes from 2 years of building with Cloudflare Durable Objects

Apply New Kubernetes Pod/Deployment Configuration

Overview Applying configuration to kubernetes pods/deployments is a pretty big part of administering these environments. Whether you are making minor/major changes to the configuration of your depl...

List Kubernetes Resources Using Get Commands

Overview One thing to note is if you manage multiple name spaces. You’ll want to use the -n or --namespace with the namespace name to see those resources. Otherwise you will look in the default nam...