I’ve come up with a completely arbitrary distinction that may only mean something to me. But it’s a way for me to organize my thoughts around how software engineers grow and a means of categorizing where people are in their professional careers.

My SSL cert for this website expired again. This time, it was a combination of environment forces that required me to make some server-side upgrades. This post explores what went wrong, how it was fixed, and also explains the cons of owning your own “hardware.”

I never had the benefit of a computer science degree. So every so often, I take some time to learn something that I’ve heard about and maybe even used but didn’t really take the time to understand well enough to appreciate. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been picking at HAMT and trying to understand how that data type works.

I released a new toy application yesterday. In this post, I’ll go through what I was exploring and what I learned in releasing a progressive web app.

I was working on a side project and had a need to serialize some data. In the end, I wound up giving data serialization more thought and realizing that I needed to rethink my strategy. I figured I’d walk through what data serialization is and what options are commonly available.

I created code-clone-tool so that I’d have a convenient tool for when when I working in orgs with lots of repositories. I’ve been using it personally for a year but wanted to announce that it’s now promoted to 1.0!

Restarting the blog is a little stressful and a little exciting.

I recently had to create a universal build of Ruby. In the process, I had to create many other universal libraries. This is a brief look at how to create them via many means.

A lot of projects get mired in a state where a lot is being done but nothing is being completed. This creates both exhaustion and the sense of being overwhelmed. You can fix it.

Following from the last post, we’re going to demonstrate how to automatically start some software when the instance is created.