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Your Tech Blog Isn't Helping
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Your Tech Blog Isn't Helping

For the third time in a week, I found myself having to look at source code to solve a simple problem. First it had been Terraform, then it was the AWS SDK, and now it was Terraform again. Each time I'd fallen into a gap in the documentation,
Mar 3, 2021 7 min read
Improvement and imperfection
existential crisis

Improvement and imperfection

I had a minor crisis of confidence earlier today looking at some of the things I've done. Most of my impacts could be uncharitably described as, "you took something that was outrageously shit and made it merely kinda bad". But on second pass I don'
Mar 19, 2020 4 min read
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Uncertainty
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Uncertainty

Data/object anti-symmetry broke me. The reason for this breakage was established a year or two ago. I had the fortune to work with some very smart people, who were very good at software engineering. As someone who'd had to fight for every slight increment toward clean coding,
Mar 5, 2019 14 min read
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