Why trying to make accidents rarer can actually make them more common
18th Oct, 2018excerpt from How Complex Systems Fail
Notes on Site Reliability Engineering, by Google
18th Oct, 2018For my own reference, here are notes I took while reading Google's book on SRE.
Using Moose's "before" method modifier to modify parameters
12th Jul, 2018A small trick to make "before" a bit more powerful, a bit more useful, and a bit more dangerous.
One-liner to analyze Python programs
10th Aug, 2016The great benefit of knowing the command-line is being able to write scripts to analyze scripts, all in ~1 minute.
Catches for traditional programmers when learning Python
26th Jul, 2016After a lifetime of programming and compsci education, I've had some issues learning with Python. It screws me up in small ways. It's a wonderful language, but dear god I wish these things were different.
It's easy to dismiss the GoF Design Patterns
21st Jul, 2016The problem of learning Object Oriented Design
19th Jul, 2016The greatest problem in learning object oriented design is in the toy problems. The object oriented solution never looks better than the regular solution.
How to write a program, the wrong way
13th Jul, 2016Learn the right way to write a program the wrong way