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  • One year at Mantle

    Apr 20, 2025

  • Using Codesandbox for coding interviews

    Jan 28, 2025

  • Thirty

    Oct 1, 2024

  • Gotchas with the HubSpot API

    Jun 22, 2024

  • Hardware Accelerated Plex Transcoding with consumer GPUs in Dell Servers

    Dec 5, 2023

  • Growing Teams with the SBI Model: A Framework for Effective Feedback

    Aug 16, 2023

  • Twenty Eight

    Oct 1, 2022

  • Twenty seven

    Oct 1, 2021

  • Binge-worthy podcasts discovered during the pandemic

    Mar 15, 2021

  • ZFS snapshots in action

    Jan 10, 2021

  • ZFS takeaways

    Dec 21, 2020

  • Building a homelab - local DNS

    Oct 18, 2020

  • Twenty Six

    Oct 1, 2020

  • Building a homelab - a walk through history and investing in new hardware

    Aug 23, 2020

  • Nix-ify your environment

    May 23, 2020

  • Replacing the engine while driving: planning safety measures into the project

    May 3, 2020

  • RubyConf 2019 Talks - Day 2

    Dec 8, 2019

  • RubyConf 2019 Talks - Day 1

    Dec 1, 2019

  • Twenty Five

    Oct 3, 2019

  • Accelerate your team as its Lead

    Aug 16, 2019

  • Key-Value Pairs in GraphQL

    Jun 20, 2019

  • Staging environments slow developers down

    Mar 31, 2019

  • Brodie: Building Shopify's new Help Centre

    Jan 14, 2019

  • Keep Continuously Testing

    Dec 30, 2018

  • Why “&” doesn't actually break your HTML URLs

    Nov 10, 2018

  • Twenty-four!

    Oct 2, 2018

  • Hunting for segmentation faults in Ruby programs

    Jul 30, 2018

  • Twilio's TaskRouter Quickstart

    May 26, 2018

  • How Does Symmetric and Public Key Encryption Work?

    May 5, 2018

  • Parallel GraphQL Resolvers with Futures

    Apr 8, 2018

  • Zero to One Hundred in Six Months: Notes on Learning Ruby and Rails

    Jan 20, 2018

  • What the hack? - or how my first capture the flag went

    Nov 30, 2017

  • Twenty-Three!

    Oct 2, 2017

  • Installing Go the Right Way

    May 18, 2017

  • Private Docker Repositories with Artifactory

    May 8, 2017

  • Practicing User Safety at GitHub

    Mar 19, 2017

  • A few Gotchas with Shopify API Development

    Feb 12, 2017

  • The Software Engineering Daily Podcast is Highly Addictive

    Feb 4, 2017

  • Better Cilk Development With Docker

    Oct 6, 2016

  • Twenty-Two

    Oct 1, 2016

  • Old Habits Die Hard: Copy and Paste

    Aug 16, 2016

  • Implementing Agile Databases with Liquibase

    Apr 25, 2016

  • My Top Tech, Software and Comedy Podcast List

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Market Yourself

    Jan 25, 2016

  • Hook, Line and Sinker: How My Early Interests Got Me to Where I Am Today

    Jan 15, 2016

  • Push-button Deployment of a Docker Compose Project

    Nov 21, 2015

  • Acquisition, Docker and Rundeck

    Nov 19, 2015

  • Twenty-one!

    Oct 9, 2015

  • Protip-ntp

    May 28, 2015

  • Introducing ChatOps to my Workplace: Hubot

    May 25, 2015

  • Introducing ChatOps to my Workplace: Intro

    May 17, 2015

  • FPGA-Friday

    Apr 3, 2015

  • Where's the warm weather? I want to go biking!

    Mar 19, 2015

  • Work Reference

    Mar 16, 2015

  • Quick Eclipse Tip

    Mar 4, 2015

  • You know there's a problem when...

    Dec 1, 2014

  • The Future is Bright? (Maybe)

    Nov 11, 2014

  • Documentation

    Oct 24, 2014

  • Of Recent Events

    Oct 22, 2014

  • Twenty

    Oct 1, 2014

  • A Path To Justice

    Sep 5, 2014

  • Moving a Jenkins Instance From one Server to Another

    Jun 24, 2014

  • Svn to Git Migration

    Jun 19, 2014

  • Hacking Banshee

    Feb 2, 2014

  • Job Update and a Concurrency Rant

    Jan 24, 2014

  • Some smooth Jazz

    Jan 23, 2014

  • Ice Storm Photography

    Dec 26, 2013

  • Exam study tip

    Dec 5, 2013

  • Dawn and Dusk

    Nov 28, 2013

  • A recent essay I read

    Nov 19, 2013

  • Building Eclipse C/C++ projects for 32-bit on a 64-bit system

    Nov 7, 2013

  • Devnull as a Service (DaaS)

    Oct 30, 2013

  • Hello Again Internet

    Oct 30, 2013

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