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Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
So this article started as a thread of tweets. I want to expand on it, so I am going to quote all the tweets here and the… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
“Well, don’t you think that you as the commander have an obligation to create a vision for your command?” It was more of a statement than a question. “No, I feel that my job as the com… [more]
The infinite power of people
This afternoon I was reading a theological book (Jacob: a brief theological introduction by Deidre Nicole Green… [more]
Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads
It’s another week of DHH causing waves, which probably shouldn’t be surprising (not linking because I don’t really want to provide him a larger platform). But it does highlight one of the things I … [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Review: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The original Cosmere novel, that had somehow slipped through my reading list until this week. I was reading an article suggesting some ideas for how to … [more]
Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Review: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
No one does magical systems better than Brandon Sanderson. That’s a pretty absolute statement but one that I am comfortable withmore]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Review: A million miles in a thousand years
This was a fun one. It’s nominally cycling and philosophy and discussions of story so you know it’s going to be one I like.more]
New Literature Section Added
Just a quick note to say that there is now a literature section in the nav menu and on this site. I wanted to migrate all the nanofiction/twitter size fiction I've wri… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
Review of "The Road to Valor" by Aili McConnon & Andres McConnon
I have love cycling, a fact you should be aware of if you intend to stick around here. Coupled with my love for… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
Delays and technical issues bias us against others experiencing them.
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2021: Year in Review
It has been quite the year!
As the pandemic has been dragging on, ramping up, slowing down, generally continuing to drag on.
Thoughts
I am excited for 2022.
2022! How did … [more]
2020: A year
This has been a crazy year, but honestly an exciting one for me and my family. We've lived through multiple natural disasters, moved, changed jobs, survived a pandemic, had a new baby join us, and … [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
This is going to be a pretty straightforward list of what tech related reading I did this year. It doesn’t include hundreds of blog posts and forum discussion. I’ll break it into two ca… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
I am playing with some graph databases right now, for a fun project I may write about later. When I first started out I was using Neo4j, which has an excellent local development story, a lovely… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
Hang tight... this is going to get a little esoteric.
The expirement really begins with three realizations. 1) That no one seems to agree on the direction that previous and next should be i… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
So the giant article I’ve been planning to write from what I learned prepping for that talk I gave on being senior<… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
I was reading this wonderful article from ia and it occurred to me that jargon and seeing are related to each other.
We know from resear… [more]
estimations and theory building
My team lead at Instructure, more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
A quick javascript tip that lets you eliminate small IF statements
Ok so it’s not really that kind of Short Circuit, though it is almost as cool. In javascript, as in many programming l… [more]
Hide the Admins
This morning after reviewing the hackmycf.com* scan results foransble.com I noticed that the only major security issue that turned up was that the railo admin was accessible from a public IP addres… [more]
Trust and the Box
Last Friday I was in Historic Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center(jsc) listening to Milt Heflin, one of jsc’s Associate Directors, describe some of the history that happened … [more]