Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Working on projects or working on products? Which is for you? Both provide for interesting, stimulating work with difficult problems to solve. Which are you personally going to derive the...
Read ArticleNeverwhere Neil Gaiman
Read ArticleFor the Rails applications we’re building at work, as well as all the standard continuous integration features, we also automatically deploy our applications. That is, every time we submit code...
Read ArticlePreviously, I’ve been a Google Reader fan for my RSS news reading needs. Now that I’m a proper Apple fan boi with an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, I’ve switched...
Read ArticleWrath of a Mad God Raymond E. Feist
Read ArticleCurrently at work I’m designing a large-scale system that will be susceptible to a certain kind of denial-of-service attack. By way of analogy, imagine that Gmail didn’t bother to prevent...
Read ArticleI complain a lot about FreeBSD here and on Twitter and, thankfully, I am now about to stop using that horror on my desktop. But why horror?
Read ArticleYes, this is one of those irritating posts. Where a blog that you thought had quietly retired suddenly reappears with a post. A post that says basically nothing. A very...
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