Today I was trying to create a pipeline-as-code using Kotlin and TeamCity. I’m a huge fan of fast Feedback Loops, so my first thought was: how can I test these changes faster. And my second thought was: how can I eventually automate testing these changes. In particular, when experimenting with…

If you haven’t heard the hype, search “10x Developer” or “10x Engineer” and you’ll find something like: “an engineer who’s 10 times better at their job than their peers” You may also come across a 1968 paper, or a recent thread of tweets on the topic. This article isn’t going…

(This post is also published as presentation: video here / slides here) If you’ve ever worked at a high-growth software engineering company, you might have heard a conversation about technical debt that goes like this: Person A: “We could release so much faster if we just did X…” Person B: “That…

There’s a lot of great content out there for learning Go — so much, in fact, that I often get asked for a list of resources people should look at. …

If you’re interested in learning the Go programming language, this guide will walk you through how to set up a brand new Mac step-by-step, with all the tools you’ll need to write and run Go programs. In this guide will cover how to: Download & Install Go; the programming language…

Go has an amazing standard library; building web servers and working with JSON doesn’t require any 3rd-party code — but for complex applications, you’ll find yourself exploring 3rd-party packages. …

Have you ever wanted to keep a Docker container running after it finishes running a script? e.g. if your container exits once your script finishes it will result in rolling restarts (which probably sends you a bunch of alerts — yay!). Well, good person, I have some shell script magic…

I’ve always wondered if I could turn a Chromebook into a full-time development machine, so I recently started tinkering with Crouton to get a Linux CLI running. Crouton creates a chroot environment and installs a distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu. It even let’s you run a full X server…

Recently I migrated a network of Mac Mini’s to Chrome OS, running on ASUS Chromebox Celeron 2955U’s (a Chromebox is the desktop version of the Chromebook). The setup works great since users rely on Google Apps/Drive and various SaaS products for operating their business. …