Pinned

Pros and Cons of Going from Management Back to Individual Contributor

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!

2025

Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation

Leaving Amazon

Should You Work on Weekends?

Meeting Open Source Users Where They Are

2024

Adding a Spell Checker to a Jekyll Blog

I Participated in 2882 Meetings in 5 Years

Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects

Harvesting the Low Hanging Fruit in Open Source Projects

How to Grow Open-Source Contributors and Maintainers

Creating an OpenSearch Cluster with Dangling Indexes

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)