One of my colleagues casually referenced Chesterton’s Fence when discussing a potential change, or asking “Why is this here?” —…
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Chesterton’s Fence and Maintaining a Codebase
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Refactoring legacy code with simple design (video reaction)
I’d bookmarked this video to watch when I got back from break, as it seems some more of my work…
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2019 in review (bullets)
It’s the end of 2019, and here’s my annual bullets.txt review. This year, I’m mostly going to write about burnout…
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Things (in Go) I’ve been learning this week
Earlier this week, I was replicating an issue that involved creating 1000 Terraform workspaces in S3, and I ended up…
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Papers We Love Conf 2019
It’s Monday after flying back from St. Louis yesterday, I had jury duty, and Strange Loop ended Saturday afternoon. Which…
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Using “replace” in go.mod to point to your local module
If you want to say, point to the local version of a dependency in Go rather than the one over…
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Thoughts on Emergent Strategy
I thought Emergent Strategy was a business book, or maybe a management book, likely because I saw that the Software…
Notes from the North America GDE Summit
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Collaborating on live code audio using Troop
Whilst in Argentina, I asked the TOPLAP (the international organization around live coding) chat about live code in Argentina, and…
I went to a hackerspace in Argentina and heard about cool art and tech things!
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