Ok I’ll admit it, the title is a bit dramatic. Makefiles and shell scripts are here to stay, and that’s fine. I’m wouldn’t make the argument that any tool is the perfect tool for all tasks all the ...

This is one of those things that I do so much but always need to think. So I’m going to create some documentation for myself, and maybe it’ll help others. Specifically, I’m going to setup an extern...

A few weeks ago I blogged about how to implement automatic session persistence. This quickly became a really great user experience for me. But something was wrong… The problem was when I would cre...

A lot of times there is an incorrect assumption that adding nines to your SLO is linear, both in gains and associated costs. Unfortunately, this idea can cause a lot of unnecessary burden on the en...

A common editor/IDE feature that most people probably don’t think about twice is that when you close down your editor and reopen it, you probably have the same files open, with the cursor at the sa...

I run Debian sid, and because I like to live on the edge of Debian sometimes things break. A similar situation happened a few weeks ago. I had updated my machine, and the next time I booted my mach...

I’ve been a Vim user for a very long time. And I’m also an avid PostgreSQL user, both personally and professionally. In fact, I finally got around to blogging about how I use Vim as my postgres cli...

Anybody that has dealt with Kubernetes clusters for any amount of time has likely ran into a situation where they run kubectl get nodes and may see the infamous NotReady state. It’s a deceivingly c...

TLDR OpenTelemetry shopping cart is repo that includes a microservices application, OpenTelemetry components, and many observability backend tools (the whole Grafana stack, Elasticsearch, Jaeger) ...

This is loosely part 2 of my latest blog post on advancements in routing. One of the other new features in Go 1.22 is the ability to have the HTTP method enforced directly in the path. But let’s fi...