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I'm an avid user of software. Whenever I have an idea, a project, a problem, or a whim, I usually have to install some software to get it done. That might be something big and graphical like GIMP or Inkscape or Blender, but usually it's smaller software or packages.
Recently …continue
Looking around, it seems that everyone uses Cargo for new Rust projects, then teams will switch over to Bazel if they need to. For me, I have an existing Bazel project that I'm adding Rust to, so I don't want to start with Cargo, so in this post I'll document …continue
Happy New Year! I hope you've had a chance to update your copyright line on all your static websites!
I also hope you've had a chance to upgrade all your dependencies in 2023, because a lot has changed in the past few years and if you're anything like me, you …continue
Edited: 2024-09-25, added remoteUser: ${localEnv:USER} to avoid chowning the workspace folder to the root user
Onboarding to a new project can be a wild ride. Sometimes, you just have a codebase that "worked on the dev's machine" and no instructions beyond that. Other times there's a documented series of …continue
In my previous post, I mentioned running vouch-proxy to protect internal apps. In it, I didn't mention that I over-complicated it by running it under Kubernetes using nginx as an Ingress instance rather than just running nginx itself.
Turns out, I've been on a kubernetes kick for a bit. As …continue
I've been an early engineer/team member of a few companies/startups, as well as an engineer at Google (and later, a second time, at Waymo). One of the big things I missed in the small companies (well, when they were small) that I remembered from my time at Google …continue
Have you ever searched for a common item on Amazon and found items that have strange names, descriptions, etc but have great reviews?
I sure have.
And in the rare instances where I've bought those things, or friends of mine have, they've basically been a lottery ticket in terms of …continue
While at a restaurant recently, I noticed they had multiple shelves of pickup orders. It's a popular local restaurant, so they had orders from all the major food delivery companies, Doordash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and they all had little receipts on them.
Each receipt had one line printed really large …continue
There are a lot of problems in this world, and while it's easy to point out problems, it's a lot harder to proffer solutions, especially ones that might actually be reasonable to implement.
I would like to offer the following series as my attempt to do so. If you have …continue