Is It Time to Start Over?
You may (or may not) have noticed I haven’t posted in a while, but the reality is that I have over a hundred ready to… Read More »Is It Time to Start Over?
Detecting If a Screen is Turned off in Linux
I occasionally write utilities for my computer that make my life a bit easier. This morning I was looking for a way to detect whether… Read More »Detecting If a Screen is Turned off in Linux
My Dead Letter Queue
I came to a realization a long, long time ago that one day I’m going to die. One day, I won’t be here anymore. What happens then? How will people read my (hidden) blogs from the Army? How will people read my unpublished stories and poetry? How will my wife know how to pay the bills?
Well, I’ll send her a letter of course!
Read More »My Dead Letter QueueThere Are No Easy Wins — Stop Asking
How many times have you heard a manager ask: “What are the easy wins?”
Casem; an Experimental Language
Every few years or so, I like to try thinking up a new language for writing software. Mostly, I don’t publish them or even attempt to create a parser. This time. Well, this time, I blew my own mind with this one.
Read More »Casem; an Experimental LanguageOn Porting Beanstalkd to Scala
Beanstalkd is a notable and mature job queue. It’s written in C, rather sparsely commented, and moderately complicated. I wanted to add some functionality and discovered reading the code pretty tricky. The soundest way to learn what some system is doing is to rewrite it. At least for me.
So, I did.
In Scala.
Read More »On Porting Beanstalkd to ScalaThe Right Place; The Right Time
In the Army, we had this saying: be at the right place, at the right time, in the right uniform. We also learn to do extensive risk mitigation. I’ve taken a lot of this to heart to learn that in the worst case, you end up in the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time. With a bit of mitigation, you can get it to wrong place, before the right time; or, right place, before the right time.
Serverless: From a PHP Developer’s Experience
this is suicide for all hosting companies that currently host all websites. Suddenly, no one would need servers. PHP would be, quite literally, the easiest migration to serverless known to mankind.
Building Things
I tend to build things differently from other people. It’s an annoying fact about myself that I can’t seem to accept. One, what I build tends to be robust, extendable, and, non-idiomatic (I hate idiomatic code). Two, what I build tends to be more complex than it needs to be, right now.