Pinned

What is the difference between a CTO and a VP or Head of Engineering?

Becoming Open Source by Default

Github is Your New Resume

Dear California Engineer - Your Commute is Killing You? Move to New York!

2024

Safely Passing Ruby Variables to JavaScript in ERB

OpenSearch Project Joins the Linux Foundation

Enumerating DigitalOcean Apps with a Deprecated Ubuntu 18 Stack

Fixing Bugs in the OpenSearch API Documentation using API Spec Tests

Using OpenSearch Cat API Response Formats

Writing a Channel Slack Bot with Granular Permissions

Adding eslint and Auto-Fixing an Existing TypeScript Project

Commenting on Pull Requests in GitHub Actions

2023

Making Raw JSON REST Requests to OpenSearch

How to ingest a PDF document into OpenSearch with the ingest-attachment plugin

Writing OpenSearch Plugins and Extensions (in Python)

Changing the default admin password in OpenSearch

Getting started with Vector DBs in Python

Triggering CI from Pull Requests and Force Pushes in GitHub Actions

Backing up DigitalOcean MongoDB to Dropbox

Migrating from Dokku to DigitalOcean Apps

2022

Programming Languages in 2022

Managing GitHub Notifications in GMail

Making AWS SigV4 Authenticated Requests to Amazon OpenSearch

A Year Working on OpenSearch (2.0)

2021

How I Learned Rust by Accident

Generating a Task Matrix by Looping over Repo Files with GitHub Actions

Automating Code Changes via GitHub Actions Making Pull Requests

How to run GitHub Actions Locally using Act

To Wrap or Not to Wrap in Markdown?

Walking Ethereum Transaction Logs to Find Lost Robbies w/Etherscan API

Adding Work E-Mail to a GPG Key and Signing Git Commits

How I Minted My First Generative Art NFT

2020

How to tell an Engineer to avoid the weasel word "like"

Migrating Classic Slack Ruby Bots to Granular Permissions