Writing

2025

• The Books I Read in 2024 Feb 01

2024

• A Comparative Analysis of Kafka Streams and TypeStream Jan 12
• The Books I Read in 2023 Jan 02

2023

• They are called streaming data "pipe"lines... right? Dec 12
• Leading Developers Feb 22

2022

• The Books I Read in 2022 Dec 27
• Getting Started With Kafka Streams Oct 20
• Improving Fakedata Performance for Fun Oct 17
• How to structure a monorepo Sep 28
• The Appeal of Monorepo Sep 23
• Estimation Done Right Aug 09
• My Engineering Management Values Aug 03
• Utility Modules Aren't Useful Jun 22
• The Appeal of Static Typing May 31
• My Programming Principles May 12
• HTTP endpoints with Kafka Streams Interactive Queries Apr 03

2017

• My experience with Go Nov 09
• deloominator tech stack Aug 11
• terraform and GitHub labels Jun 06
• deloominator: a data visualization tool for SQL users May 30
• Writing integration tests for a Go CLI application May 18
• My experience with standups Apr 28
• On writing Apr 04
• Tmux and I in 2017 Mar 26
• Using Flow and jest Mar 21
• First steps with React props and state Mar 16
• Webpack in development and semantic-ui setup Mar 03
• Building an activity tracker with Go, Grafana, and InfluxDB Feb 23
• Getting started with Vim Feb 19
• First steps with webpack, babel, and yarn Feb 14
• All I have done wrong running a product team Feb 06

2016

• An illiterate guide to classical music Dec 28
• The real power of journaling Oct 09
• A few words about hiring Jul 18

2015

• Some notes about one-on-ones Nov 30
• My experience with Kanban Jul 06
• What I think about when programmers talk about speed Apr 28
• What I'm learning with journaling Feb 02

2014

• Two Years Abroad Aug 29
• A couple of useful aliases for docker Apr 19
• Go, docker and a CI server Apr 02

2013

• A few thoughts about Practical Object-Oriented Design In Ruby Jan 21

2012

• Grouping validations Apr 16
• Tmux for rails developers Mar 27
• Vim for Rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly Jan 30
• Faster controller specs with sorcery Jan 24

2011

• Twitter Bootstrap on Rails Nov 22
• Vim for Rails developers: Lazy modern configuration Nov 17
• A review of Crafting Rails Applications Oct 07
• Pry Everywhere Sep 05
• A review of The RSpec Book Sep 01
• Multiple files upload with carrierwave and nested_form Aug 29
• Vim for Rails developers: Recursive macros and Ack.vim May 24
• A review of The Rails 3 way May 06
• Vim for rails developers: indenting code Mar 31
• Improving IRB history Mar 18
• Vim for rails developers: a screencast review Mar 10
• Why you should spend some time configuring irb Mar 08
• A review of Metaprogramming Ruby Feb 24
• Vim for rails developers: what you can't miss Feb 16
• A review of Ruby Best Practices Feb 11
• New site Jan 24