Posts

2025

🎬 90s Movies Were Always About Reality Control—Now We Really Get It

November 23, 2025

2024

🐰 Elixir Basics: Working with AMQP

October 15, 2024

⏱️ Elixir Basics: Multi-Process Interval Timer

October 9, 2024

💻 Building Beautiful Admin Dashboards in Phoenix with Backpex

August 27, 2024

🧠 Dynamic Key/Value Pair Inputs in Phoenix LiveView Forms

August 19, 2024

🛠️ Managing Development Environments with Mise

August 14, 2024

August 5, 2024

2023

🏰 A Day Exploring Berlin

November 27, 2023

📷 A Photo That Means the World to Me

November 15, 2023

🇩🇪 My Solo Journey Through Germany

November 8, 2023

📈💰☁️ The Rise of FinOps: How Cloud Financial Operations Are Transforming Business

April 2, 2023

📘 The Ideal Team Player: A Book Review and Practical Application

March 29, 2023

💪 The Value of Hard Work: Lessons Learned from Working-Class Jobs

March 16, 2023

🏋️ Syncing Hevy Workouts to Notion Using Zapier

March 11, 2023

🎧 Revolutionize Your Podcast Consumption with Snipd, Notion, and AI

March 3, 2023

💡 The Power of Intentionality

February 23, 2023

📘 Book Review: Dynamic Reteaming

January 1, 2023

2022

Strange Loop 2022 Recap

October 1, 2022

Effective Communication Best Practices

June 18, 2022

2021

Thoughts on Managing Managers

December 8, 2021

Book Review: Turn the Ship Around

August 1, 2021

Measuring the Impact of Unplanned Work

February 18, 2021

Book Review: The First 90 Days

January 12, 2021

2019

My Five Favorite Management Books

December 22, 2019

152 Days of the Majjhima Nikāya

April 22, 2019

2017

Engineering Team Metrics to Drive Performance

March 3, 2017

2016

How We Run Infrastructure at Zapier

November 12, 2016

2014

Installing Elasticsearch Plugins on Graylog2

June 17, 2014

On BDD From Acceptance Tests to Story Level Specifications

March 17, 2014

2013

Dynamic Vagrant Nodes

March 17, 2013

2012

HackComo Inaugural Meetup 2/28/2012

February 28, 2012

2010

An Epiphany About Coaching

November 1, 2010

Lessons Learned With My Recent Node.js Application

September 24, 2010

Life in the Fast Lane

July 12, 2010

RabbitMQ, Node.js and Java Goodness

February 28, 2010

⭐️ Retrospective Rules

February 28, 2010

The Importance of Maintaining a Sustainable Pace

February 18, 2010

2009

February 15, 2009

2008

OSCommerce: A Lesson in Unmaintainable Code?

November 30, 2008