Category: Work

  • The Age of the Soft Skill

    Every team had one: the engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down. No…

  • What Happens When You Move 1,000 Servers to cgroup v2

    We’ve been running a large-scale Kubernetes cluster on Scientific Linux 7 for years. It works. It’s stable. Nobody complains. So naturally, we decided to migrate everything to Debian…

  • What I’m using

    One of the challenges of working remotely is that you lose the benefit of “over-the-shoulder” learning. You don’t get to see what tools your coworkers are using or…

  • #wwwp5K!

    A 5k for charity by Automatttic

  • Chi City & Maine 2020

    I was recently in Chicago for work then met up with my wife & family in Maine. I didn’t get out much in Chicago, I was pretty busy…

  • Svelte is cool

    Two of my teammates brought up https://svelte.dev/. I had not seen it before, and the second I clicked the link I thought: “this is so cool!” I thought…

  • Building an “easy” web application

    I spent my Fourth of July weekend writing a “simple” web application.

  • The Krimm

    I developed a custom news mailer for my wife and I that runs every morning 🙂

  • Out with the old, in with the new.

    New laptop? New stickers!

  • WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

    The differences broken down.