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!

2023

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

Dup, Don't Modify Input Hash Parameters in Ruby

Keeping a CHANGELOG at Work

Calling a GraphQL API in Redwood.js

Comparing Version Numbers in Ruby

Using Bash Parameter Expansion for Conditionals in GitHub Actions

I've Asked You to Become an Open-Source Project's Co-Maintainer

Writing a New OpenWeatherMap.org API Ruby Client

Working with AWS SDK for PHP and Data Exchange

Working with AWS SDK for C++ and Data Exchange

Restoring Data into a MongoDB Dokku Container

2019

Writing DotNet Code on a Mac, No Administrator Privileges Required

Pros and Cons of Going from Management Back to Individual Contributor

Building AWS Data Exchange and the Value of Simple Ideas at Scale