A Review of the Kinesis Advantage 2
The Kinesis Advantage 2 helped me type again. That's the greatest endorsement I could give to any keyboard. It's the most comfortable keyboard I've ever typed on, but may be too noisy for some.…
Balancing Personal Projects and Work
Go to any tech blog or forum and you'll see them sprinkled around everywhere. "My little side project", "been working on something like X for a bit", "this reminds me of a small tool I built for myself once". These might be…
Migrating a Repository to Bazel
This will be a bit of a difficult post for me to make, because the work I've been doing has all been in a private repository at work and I can't share any of the direct code snippets here. But I think the work to migrate…
Remote Pair Programming
A lot has been said about pair programming as an effective way to develop software, and I would bet most software developers have strong feelings about the practice. Some people swear by it, and others consider it a waste of time. So much thought has gone into the practice that…
Your Recipe Doesn't Need a Backstory
This problem is so common it became a meme and recipe-writers on the internet still haven't figured it out: we, the recipe readers, don't care about your life story. We don't need to hear how this dish has transformed your love life, or how…
Git Commits as a Unit of Work
I've been mulling this topic for a while and didn't really know how I wanted to present it, but with Linus Torvalds' recent appearance in the news trashing GitHub's suggested commit feature [https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbtip559HcMG9VQLGPmkurh5Kc50y5BceL8Q8=aL0H3Q@mail.gmail.com/…
Derailed by Injury
It's been a hot minute since I've written out a post even though I've come up with some good topics to cover in the future. The problem is that I've been unable to type for extended periods over the last month or…
Overcoming Overdue Tasks
You put it off and off and eventually the pile is too embarrassing to even look at. Some tasks (like the laundry example), do have to be completed eventually, but it comes with resentment and extra stress. Some tasks don't and are forever on the todo list.…