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Mar 29, 2024
Starting new things as a Staff+ engineer
Dec 27, 2023
Types of engineering metrics
Oct 1, 2023
Effective communication and surprise
Dec 24, 2022
A safe pair of hands
Nov 13, 2022
Writing your job description
Oct 29, 2021
Personal retrospectives
Aug 31, 2021
Oncall compensation structures
Jul 24, 2021
How I think about career development
Feb 3, 2021
Driving a "long incident" as an engineer
Jan 31, 2021
A little negativity about OKRs
Oct 10, 2020
A scientific approach to debugging
Jun 1, 2020
Horizontal National Beehive
Feb 16, 2020
Tree planting 2020
Jun 25, 2019
Double nucleus beehive box
Mar 10, 2019
8-frame Rose beehive boxes
Sep 9, 2018
Cut-out at Bóthar Buí
Mar 14, 2018
The systems design interview
Mar 14, 2018
Python in private repos
Mar 22, 2016
A software lifecycle update
Nov 5, 2015
Snippets
May 6, 2015
Distributed Erlang
Jan 25, 2015
lists:reverse/1 performance in Erlang
Jan 14, 2015
Getting basic Erlang VM metrics into Hosted Graphite
Dec 26, 2014
Reading rollup, 2014-12-26
Sep 27, 2014
Reading rollup, 2014-09-27
Sep 16, 2014
Reading rollup, 2014-09-16
Sep 6, 2014
Reading rollup, 2014-09-06
Sep 5, 2014
Expression
Aug 26, 2014
Reading rollup, 2014-08-26
Jul 15, 2014
Designing for Brobdingnag
Jul 14, 2014
monendi te salutant
Jul 12, 2014
Alerting in production systems
Apr 3, 2014
Workspace
Nov 29, 2013
Waldschattenspiel
Nov 21, 2013
ICs, managers and bears! Oh my!
Nov 20, 2013
Beyond Corp
Oct 28, 2013
Cat-O'-Lantern
Sep 2, 2013
Princess Peach and Boulder Dwarf
Aug 27, 2013
Keeping a lab book
Jul 31, 2013
Negotiating with the machine
May 5, 2013
Reading Greek
Dec 19, 2012
A discipline of programming
Nov 23, 2012
The ITwhatnow?
Nov 14, 2012
Monitoring periodic jobs
Feb 24, 2012
The Dark Room
Feb 23, 2012
Computation, space and identity
Mar 11, 2011
Wildcard lookup dictionary
Apr 27, 2010
Hexadecimal Times Table
Mar 10, 2010
Desktop priority chart
Jan 14, 2010
Purple fudge dice