Posts

Describing fault domains. August 17, 2019. architecture infrastructure
Distributed systems vocabulary. August 11, 2019. architecture infrastructure
Reclaim unreasonable software. July 28, 2019. architecture
What's the inverse of literate programming. July 14, 2019. literal rust
Head in the clouds. July 7, 2019. cloud infrastructure
Don't follow the sun. July 3, 2019. reliability infrastructure
Notes on Escaping the Build Trap June 30, 2019. product book review
Fostering program engagement. June 26, 2019. management org-programs
Programs: tips for owning the unownable. June 25, 2019. management org-programs
Some career advice. June 22, 2019. career
Running systems library as Cloud Function. June 16, 2019. systems gcf cloud
Path to engineering manager of managers. June 15, 2019. management career
An Elegant Puzzle @ Software Engineering Daily June 14, 2019. elegant-puzzle podcast
What I learned writing a book. June 8, 2019. elegant-puzzle writing
Privilege's upward-facing window. June 1, 2019. management inclusion
Elegant Puzzle press, reviews and podcasts. May 29, 2019. elegant-puzzle podcast writing talks
An Elegant Puzzle is released today! May 28, 2019. elegant-puzzle management writing
Make timeline tradeoffs using iterative elimination tournaments. May 25, 2019. management
How to invest in technical infrastructure. May 19, 2019. infrastructure
Can governments design great APIs? Let's hope so. May 12, 2019. data-localization
An Elegant Puzzle is available for pre-order. April 25, 2019. elegant-puzzle
To innovate, first deprecate. April 7, 2019. infrastructure systems-thinking
Magnitudes of exploration. April 6, 2019. management infrastructure
An Elegant Puzzle coming in late May. April 1, 2019. elegant-puzzle
Fire fixation. March 23, 2019. management
Rules of thumb for org design. March 17, 2019. management
How to evolve an engineering organization. March 5, 2019. management
Paying the predictability tax. February 24, 2019. management
Valuing already-solved problems. February 23, 2019. product
Why limiting work-in-progress works. February 17, 2019. management systems-thinking
Binder for hosting Jupyter notebooks. February 10, 2019. systems-thinking systems binder
Writing a reliability strategy: reason about complex things with system models. February 9, 2019. infrastructure systems-thinking systems
Notes on Soul of a New Machine, Messy Middle, Crazy at Work, Company of One. February 2, 2019. book review management
Growing with your company's complexity. January 29, 2019. management career
Meeting people. January 26, 2019. management career
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management. January 22, 2019. elegant-puzzle management writing
Newsletter for Irrational Exuberance. January 20, 2019. newsletter
Metrics for the unmeasurable. January 19, 2019. management metrics
Some delightful developer experiences in 2019. January 7, 2019. apis product
Good process is evolved, not designed. January 1, 2019. management
Defining policy, process and programs. December 30, 2018. management
Notes on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. December 29, 2018. programming review book
2018 in review. December 27, 2018. writing blog
Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @ QCon SF 2018 December 13, 2018. infrastructure speaking talks
Infrastructure planning: users, baselines and timeframes. December 9, 2018. infrastructure management
Notes on The Timeless Way of Building November 24, 2018. book review architecture
Quick tutorial on using GraphQL with Python. November 18, 2018. graphql python
Headcount dilemmas. November 15, 2018. management
Speaking at QCon SF 2018 about migrations. November 5, 2018. speaking
Talent distributions. November 4, 2018. management
Landing in the JET Program. October 15, 2018. stories jet japan
Capturing resources. October 14, 2018. management
Quick blogging update for October 2018 October 13, 2018. writing
Notes on The Pyramid Principle. October 1, 2018. book review
System dynamics in a jupyter notebook. September 30, 2018. systems jupyter
Career narratives. September 26, 2018. management career
Saying no. September 23, 2018. management
Work the policy, not the exceptions. September 23, 2018. management
Modeling a hiring funnel with Systems library. September 18, 2018. systems-thinking hiring
Introduction to systems thinking. September 4, 2018. management systems-thinking
Notes on A Philosophy of Software Design. September 3, 2018. architecture review book
Designing interview loops. September 2, 2018. management hiring
Communities of learning. September 1, 2018. management
Time management: the leadership meta-problem. August 27, 2018. management
Problem exploration, selection and validation. August 20, 2018. management product
Introducing SREs, TPMs and other specialized roles. August 13, 2018. management
Career levels, designation momentum, etc. August 11, 2018. management
Designations, levels and calibrations. August 10, 2018. management
Make your peers your first team. August 8, 2018. management
Digg v4 @ Internet History Podcast August 6, 2018. digg podcast speaking talks
Presenting to executives. August 6, 2018. management
Your hiring funnel. August 1, 2018. management hiring
Scaling consistency. July 30, 2018. management
Book recommendations. July 24, 2018. management book review
Succession planning. July 23, 2018. management
Identify your controls. July 21, 2018. management
Opportunity & Membership. July 17, 2018. management inclusion
Service cookbooks. July 15, 2018. infrastructure
Sizing engineering teams. July 14, 2018. management
Selecting project leads. July 12, 2018. management inclusion
Writing strategies and visions. July 9, 2018. management leadership
Braindump on approach to writing a technical book. July 8, 2018. writing
Guiding broad change with metrics. July 6, 2018. metrics management leadership
Goals and baselines. July 5, 2018. metrics management
Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity. July 2, 2018. stories digg
My rails for engineering leadership. July 1, 2018. leadership management
Accelerate's definition of developer productivity. June 27, 2018. infrastructure devtools
The briefest of media trainings. June 24, 2018. management
A case against top-down global optimization. June 23, 2018. management
Infrastructure migrations @ Interestings June 22, 2018. podcast infrastructure speaking talks
Staying on the path to high performing teams. June 17, 2018. management
Where to stash your organizational risk? June 13, 2018. management
Experiment with distributed finite state machines. June 2, 2018. infrastructure go
You can't reason about big balls of mud. May 23, 2018. architecture infrastructure
Consider the team you have for senior positions. May 19, 2018. management hiring
Setting organizational direction. May 9, 2018. management
Model, document and share. April 26, 2018. management
Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. April 15, 2018. infrastructure management
Reflections on the Systems & Papers. April 14, 2018. retrospective
The Redis Protocol is pretty great. April 10, 2018. redis protocols infrastructure
Some of my favorite technical papers. April 7, 2018. infrastructure software-engineering
Close out, solve or delegate. March 29, 2018. management
Managing in the growth plates. March 21, 2018. management
Infrastructure engineering @ Inside Intercom March 20, 2018. podcast speaking talks
Notes from "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy." March 1, 2018. management review book
How I write group emails at work. February 17, 2018. management
Refactoring Ruby programmatically. February 13, 2018. ruby devtools
Seth Godin's The Dip. February 11, 2018. review book
Product management in infrastructure engineering. February 6, 2018. infrastructure product management
Global secondary indexes. January 30, 2018. infrastructure storage
Experimenting with content and distribution. January 27, 2018. writing
Inclusion in the first shift. January 23, 2018. management
Vulnerability. January 20, 2018. management
The physics of Cloud expansion. January 16, 2018. infrastructure cloud
Async processing with sync semantics? January 15, 2018. infrastructure data
Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know. January 8, 2018. management hiring
Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak predictor of personal growth. January 2, 2018. management career
Engineering management stuff I learned in 2017. December 29, 2017. infrastructure management
Analyzing cross-service requests with Apache Beam. November 26, 2017. python infrastructure data
From lambda to kappa and dataflow paradigms. November 22, 2017. architecture
Tools for operating a growing organization. November 18, 2017. management
Sketching out failure injection on Kubernetes. May 20, 2017. k8s
Simple Continuous Deployment on GKE with gke_ci May 18, 2017. k8s gke deployment
Trying out Google Container Engine May 14, 2017. k8s gke
Providing pierceable abstractions. May 7, 2017. architecture
Options for orchestrating periodic tasks. April 30, 2017. architecture k8s
Increment has launched. April 13, 2017. increment writing
Notes from fifth blog rewrite April 2, 2017. blog
Running an engineering reorg March 17, 2017. management reorg
Partnering with your manager March 13, 2017. management
Technology Inheritance March 7, 2017. software-engineering
Infrastructure between cost center and ego trip March 5, 2017. infrastructure architecture management
Ways Engineering Managers Get Stuck March 3, 2017. management
Braindump on Load Generation December 18, 2016. architecture load testing braindump
Finding Managerial Scope October 31, 2016. management
Usable QA Environments October 24, 2016. architecture qa
Serverless: Gatekeeping and Profit Margins October 16, 2016. architecture serverless
Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. October 10, 2016. management
You Should Take More Vacation October 1, 2016. management
Acing Your Architecture Interview September 27, 2016. interviewing
Fail Open and Layer Policy September 20, 2016. architecture
Thoughts on Envoy's Design September 18, 2016. architecture
QoS, Cost & Quotas September 11, 2016. architecture scaling
Running a Humane Interview Process June 9, 2016. management hiring
Healing a Burned Out Team May 29, 2016. management burnout
Wherein I Rewrite My Blog a Fifth Time May 20, 2016. blog
Your Philosophy of Management May 7, 2016. management
Adding Value as an Engineering Manager September 26, 2015. management
Developing service oriented architectures. June 1, 2014. infrastructure architecture
Building a Software Deployment Pipeline March 30, 2014. architecture software-engineering deployment
Irrational Exuberance's Fourth Coming March 24, 2014. blog
Company Culture and Managing Freedoms February 9, 2014. management software-engineering
War Card Game in Python December 2, 2012. python
Reflection on RethinkDB December 2, 2012. rethinkdb
Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder November 25, 2012. software-engineering management
Configuration Driven Behavior November 25, 2012. architecture software-engineering
Extraction: Get Metadata from HTML Documents November 23, 2012. extraction python
Social Hierarchies in Engineering Organizations November 4, 2012. management software-engineering
Creating Multi-Worksheet Excel Docs with xlwt November 4, 2012. python excel
Building Technical Leverage November 4, 2012. software-engineering architecture
Hosting a Paper Reading Group October 28, 2012. management software-engineering
Why Pagination Was Hard at Digg August 25, 2012. digg
Slack and Hope for Middle Management August 25, 2012. management
Digg v4's Architecture and Development Processes August 19, 2012. digg architecture
Writing, Analytics and Analysis April 10, 2011. blog analytics sisyphus
Storing Bounded Timeboxes in Redis April 7, 2011. python redis
Using Flot.js with the Digg Streaming API April 6, 2011. digg digg-streaming-api flot javascript
Introduction to architecting systems for scale. April 4, 2011. infrastructure architecture
How to Filter Bots From Analytics April 3, 2011. analytics
Don't Make Me Defend Your Claims March 30, 2011. usability
IE's New Infrastructure and Writing Workflow March 28, 2011. sisyphus redis git
Irrational Exuberance's Third Rebirth March 27, 2011. sisyphus lifeflow blog
Coding Projects March 27, 2011.
Articles and Series March 27, 2011.
Being Defensive January 22, 2011.
Python Default Parameter Value Gotchas September 11, 2010. python
Python Datastructures Backed by Redis September 5, 2010. python redis
DjangoDash and Drinkfindr September 4, 2010. django
Time to Load Redis Snapshots August 23, 2010. redis
Notes on Redis Memory Usage August 22, 2010. redis
SuperFamily Relationships with Lazyboy May 23, 2010. python cassandra lazyboy
Tailing in Python May 16, 2010. python
Callbacks Are An Informal Pipeline March 7, 2010. javascript node-js
Porting Django's urlpatterns to Node.js March 6, 2010. javascript node-js
Retiring and Releasing Codernote.com February 20, 2010. django
The Day I Broke Production February 14, 2010. erlang stories
Looking For a New Agenda February 7, 2010.
Log Collection Server with Node.js January 30, 2010. javascript node-js
Debugging Crashes With Small Scripts January 23, 2010. erlang
A Python-Markdown Extension for Embedding Graphviz January 16, 2010. python markdown
Formatting Multipart Formdata in Erlang January 10, 2010. erlang
A Photo Album with Python and PIL January 4, 2010. python pil
Refactoring & Testing Our Dynamo Clone January 2, 2010. erlang distributed-systems
Quick Notes for Starting 2010 January 1, 2010.
Crash on Compiling App With MKMapView December 31, 2009. iphone
Nagios Monitoring for Erlang December 30, 2009. erlang
Replicating receive-after in an Erlang gen_server December 13, 2009. erlang
Durable Writes & Consistent Reads November 30, 2009. erlang distributed-systems
Hands On Review of the Dynamo Paper November 30, 2009. erlang distributed-systems
Recurring Events and Message Passing November 25, 2009. actors erlang clojure agents concurrency
Scalable Scraping in Clojure November 24, 2009. screen-scraping clojure agents concurrency
A Couple of Clojure Agent Examples November 22, 2009. actors clojure agents concurrency
Writing Files in Clojure November 16, 2009. clojure
Reading Files in Clojure November 15, 2009. clojure
Setting Up TLA+ Tools on OS X October 31, 2009. tla
Comments on "Why Engineers Should Consider Formal Methods" October 20, 2009. computer-science software-engineering
Money or Meaning: Spending Our Wealth of Time October 11, 2009. essay
Cleaning up erlang_markdown October 10, 2009. markdown erlang
A Failed Stack-based Markdown Interpreter September 27, 2009. markdown erlang
Proposal for Authenticating Web Callbacks September 20, 2009. web-callbacks
Generating RSS feeds via BeepBeep September 20, 2009. beepbeep
How Pitance Versions Documents in CouchDB September 17, 2009. couchdb pitance
Erlang Brush for SyntaxHighlighter September 15, 2009. erlang pitance syntaxhighlighter
Pitance: Template and Snippet Infrastructure September 13, 2009. beepbeep pitance
Load Balancing Across Erlang Process Groups September 12, 2009. erlang
Changing Mimetypes for Text Responses in BeepBeep September 3, 2009. beepbeep
Paper Review of "Hints On Computer System Design" August 21, 2009. computer-science software-engineering
Paper Review of "A Transaction Model" August 18, 2009. computer-science software-engineering transactions
Success and Dancing Shoes July 31, 2009.
Several Approaches to Versioning Files in PHP July 28, 2009. php
Distinguishing Strings from Lists in Erlang July 24, 2009. erlang
Freebase Hackday and Image Game July 12, 2009. acre freebase
BeepBeep, CouchDB and a Trivial Blog July 9, 2009. erlang couchdb beepbeep
Using Ajax with the BeepBeep Microframework July 6, 2009. jquery erlang beepbeep
Getting Started With BeepBeep July 5, 2009. erlang beepbeep
What Do Django People Search About? June 17, 2009. django
YUI Dialogs, IE z-index and Tragedy June 16, 2009. fail yui
Feedback Loops in Software Development June 1, 2009. software-engineering
Recycling Hacker Fear-Mongering May 31, 2009. news
Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery April 28, 2009. software-engineering
OS X Textfield Encoding (maybe) Issue April 1, 2009. fail
Findjango Redesign & Slides for django-nyc March 25, 2009. slides springsteen findjango
How To Remotely Admin Servers Via Twitter March 22, 2009. python
Findjango, A Week of Progress March 16, 2009. django findjango
Making Django Apps Run On and Off GAE March 10, 2009. django google-app-engine
Technical Debt and Peanut Butter Jars March 10, 2009. reflection software-engineering
Findjango: A Django Search Vertical March 9, 2009. django springsteen findjango
Solango and Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu Intrepid March 6, 2009. django ubuntu solango
Simplified django-springsteen Deploy on GAE March 5, 2009. google-app-engine springsteen
Deploying django-springsteen on Google App Engine March 5, 2009. django google-app-engine springsteen
Reranking Results in django-springsteen February 26, 2009. django boss springsteen
django-springsteen and Distributed Search February 25, 2009. django boss springsteen
Leaving DreamHost February 23, 2009. dreamhost slicehost
Depicting Human Relationships February 21, 2009. processing
Smaller Header, JobSyndicate, Printable Articles February 19, 2009. blog
Measuring Single and Multi Server Performance February 18, 2009. apache nginx mod_wsgi experiment
Rewriting Parameterized URLs with Nginx February 16, 2009. nginx
Overview of Single vs. Multi Server Architecture February 16, 2009. apache architecture nginx
When psycopg2 Can't Import tz February 13, 2009. fail postgresql
The Django and Ubuntu Intrepid Almanac February 13, 2009. django ubuntu memcache postgresql apache nginx mod_wsgi
Visually Representing Word Structures February 10, 2009. processing
Using Threadpools in Python February 10, 2009. python
Setting up CouchDB-Lucene on OS X February 6, 2009. couchdb lucene
We're All Sinners and Cosiners February 6, 2009. processing
Circle and Line Diaspora February 5, 2009. processing
Spiral and Square February 5, 2009. processing
Visualizing Keyterms with BOSS and Processing February 4, 2009. boss processing
Cull Lingering Erlang Heart Processes February 4, 2009. erlang
Hard and Soft, Fluffy and Brittle February 3, 2009. software
Simple Unittesting in PHP February 1, 2009. testing php
Stripping Illegal Characters from XML in Python January 25, 2009. python
Huge CSV and XML Files in Python January 22, 2009. python
A Filter to Display Neighbors in a List January 20, 2009. design django
Genetic Programming: A Novel Failure January 19, 2009. computer-science genetic-algorithms
Genetic algorithms: cool name & damn simple. January 2, 2009. computer-science genetic-algorithms
Moving Into 2009 January 2, 2009.
Django-Portfolio: Organize and Display Projects December 29, 2008. django
The Subtle Joys of Generic Methods December 11, 2008. common-lisp language-design python
A Command Line Tool for Loading CouchDB Documents December 9, 2008. python couchdb
Full-Text Search in CouchDB Using... CouchDB December 8, 2008. couchdb
Blogging as People December 6, 2008. writing
Intro to HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI December 5, 2008. perl
Finally Waving The White Flag to Objective-C 2.0 December 4, 2008. objc
Fixing What Ails LifeFlow December 3, 2008. lifeflow
Prevent Cron Cancer With a File-based Mutex December 3, 2008. perl
Parallel HTTP Requests in Python December 2, 2008. python
Reading XML Files on the iPhone November 30, 2008. objc iphone
A Different Approach to local_settings.py November 28, 2008. django
XML::Twig for Large XML Files in Perl November 20, 2008. perl
Slides from django-nyc on 11/18/2008 November 19, 2008. django slides
Python-Brightkite for... you get the idea November 16, 2008. python
Introducing a Tutorial and touchDefense November 11, 2008. cocos2d monocle-studios touchdefense
The Blogging Hypochondriac November 8, 2008. thoughts writing
The Fate of Pop and Hip-Hop in 2008 November 7, 2008. music
XML::Simple for Non-Perlers November 7, 2008. perl
You Only Learn the First Time November 6, 2008. writing
Bad Ideas and Regular Expressions in Templates November 5, 2008. django templates
Deploying Django with Fabric November 4, 2008. django python fabric
Development to Deployment in Django November 3, 2008. django
Creating Slideshows with Cocos2d iPhone October 29, 2008. cocos2d iphone
Customize site style by user with django-userskins October 27, 2008. django
User Registration Apps for Django October 25, 2008. django
Releasing Kappa Source (PyObjC Twitter Client) October 23, 2008. pyobjc source
Advice to Programmers in College October 22, 2008. writing
Touch Detection in Cocos2d iPhone October 20, 2008. objc cocos2d iphone
Being a Local Maximum October 19, 2008. writing contract
HSS and YUI Compressor in AYM CMS October 19, 2008. aym-cms
R.I.P. Your Resume Site to Awesome October 18, 2008. python aym-cms
Taming AuditTrail Proliferation October 16, 2008. django
Releasing Source for Mahou October 16, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino
Choosing Between AuditTrail and Django-Rcsfield October 15, 2008. django
Setting Up Django-Rcsfield October 15, 2008. django python
Restricting User Signups in Django October 12, 2008. django
Failing a Contract October 11, 2008. fail writing contract
The Magical Source of YUI Get's Power October 3, 2008. javascript yui
Notes on Cocos2d iPhone Development October 3, 2008. cocoa cocos2d iphone
Suffer Less By Using Django Dev Server as a Proxy September 30, 2008. django prototyping
Writing for Consumption September 29, 2008. writing
Starting Again, Keeping It Simple September 27, 2008. reflection
As-You-Type Slug Uniqueness Validation September 26, 2008. jquery django python
Layers of Authentication September 25, 2008. django
Custom Django Views for Happier Ajax September 24, 2008. jquery django javascript
Using Automator to Scale Images Horizontally September 22, 2008. os-x
Redesign of Lethain.com September 21, 2008. design
Intro to Unintrusive JavaScript with Django September 21, 2008. jquery django javascript
A One-Stop AYM CMS Solution September 17, 2008. aym-cms
Making Static Dynamic Again; AYM CMS September 15, 2008. django aym-cms
Intricate Static Websites With Django Templates September 15, 2008. django python
Sparklines.js Port to Python September 13, 2008. python sparklines-js
Yes, You Do Care About Cappuccino September 12, 2008. cappuccino
Extending Mahou; Gotchas and Snippets September 12, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino mahou
Extracting Data From Google Analytics Reports September 11, 2008. python
Extending Classes in Cappuccino September 7, 2008. cappuccino
Writing Mahou; a Cappuccino Image Search September 6, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino mahou
Startups and Assembly Lines September 5, 2008. entrepreneurship essay framing
Migrating the 'This Week in Django' Concept September 5, 2008. django
Poor Wireless Connectivity for MacBook September 4, 2008. fail os-x
Naming and Casing Convention in PyObjC September 4, 2008. pyobjc
Introducing Kappa, a Twitter Client September 3, 2008. os-x kappa
I Live in New Jersey September 1, 2008. nj
Dynamic Ad Targeting With django-monetize August 29, 2008. django django_monetize
Transcending Search-as-You-Type Stickiness August 29, 2008. design ui
Epic PyObjC, Part 5: Resources and Farewell August 27, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
Epic PyObjc, Part 4: Drag & Drop, Multiple Nibs August 26, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
Epic PyObjC, Part 3: Browsing, Caching, Indicating August 25, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
Epic PyObjC, Part 2: Adding a Library & Bindings August 24, 2008. python cocoa pyobjc
An Epic Introduction to PyObjC and Cocoa August 22, 2008. python cocoa pyobjc
Writing to Application Support in PyObjC August 22, 2008. cocoa pyobjc
Writing Titles Under Ninety-Five Characters August 20, 2008. fail
Deleting From NSOutlineView With the Delete Key August 20, 2008. cocoa pyobjc
How to Use Selectors in PyObjC August 19, 2008. pyobjc
An Introduction to Using CouchDB with Django August 18, 2008. django couchdb
Global Popularity of Programming Languages August 14, 2008.
An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping August 10, 2008. python screen-scraping
A Syntax Coloring Template Filter for Django August 9, 2008. django python
A Year Later, Home From Japan August 9, 2008. japan
Python Content Scraper for OneManga.com August 8, 2008. python screen-scraping
Reading "The Nudist on the Late Shift" in 2008 August 7, 2008. review entrepreneurship
Cocoa Drag and Drop text into the Dock Icon August 6, 2008. objc cocoa pyobjc
How to Write a Wrapper Library August 4, 2008. design
BossArray for list-like Yahoo search results July 28, 2008. python boss
Replacing Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy July 23, 2008. django
Replacing Django's Template Language With Jinja2 July 22, 2008. django jinja
An Introduction to Django's Loose Coupling July 22, 2008. django
Reflections on a Year of Blogging and Japan July 21, 2008. japan reflection
小学校と教える授業の最後の日 July 18, 2008. jet japan
Last Day of Elementary School and Classes July 18, 2008. jet japan
Stripping Reddit From HackerNews With BOSS Mashup July 12, 2008. python boss
Polishing Up Our Django & BOSS Search Service July 12, 2008. django boss
Search Recipes for Yahoo's BOSS in Python July 11, 2008. python boss
Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service in Django July 10, 2008. django boss
Release of LifeFlow 0.91 July 7, 2008. lifeflow
Advice for ALTs Considering a Second Year July 7, 2008. jet japan
A Thursday: Elementary School July 2, 2008. jet japan
An Introduction to a Week in Japan July 2, 2008. jet japan
ReST, Textile and HTML in Markdown July 1, 2008. lifeflow markdown
Updates to Sparklines.js June 30, 2008. javascript processing-js sparklines-js
Sparklines in Javascript With Sparklines.js June 26, 2008. javascript processing-js sparklines-js
JSON, Object Oriented Views, and Starting a Real App June 22, 2008. django python
Ambush Code Review Learns Code Diffs June 18, 2008. django google-app-engine
Overview of Using Django on the Google App Engine June 17, 2008. django google-app-engine
A Sunday Project: Ambush Code Review June 16, 2008. django google-app-engine
Up to Speed June 15, 2008. django
A Django Anti-Pattern, Rolling Your Own REST June 13, 2008. django rest anti-pattern
Minimalism June 11, 2008. django python
Working on LifeFlow's Public Face June 11, 2008. django lifeflow
Release of LifeFlow Version 0.90 June 10, 2008. django lifeflow lifeflow-editor
Deployment Scripts With BeautifulSoup June 9, 2008. python ptd
Processed Tower Defense 1.0 June 9, 2008. javascript ptd
Things I'll Miss in Japan June 8, 2008. jet japan
Strangest JavaScript Bug I've Ever Seen June 6, 2008. javascript
Looking for Recycling's Lost Sex Appeal June 3, 2008. japan environment
Updates to Processed Tower Defense May 28, 2008. javascript processing-js
May in Review May 27, 2008. jet japan
Processing.jsの使い方 May 26, 2008. javascript processing-js
Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience May 25, 2008. language-design thoughts
Music From the iTunes Store, 1 May 21, 2008. music
Improvements to LifeFlow Editor May 21, 2008. lifeflow lifeflow-editor
Updating Processing.js Graphics via Ajax May 20, 2008. javascript processing-js
Design of Processed Tower Defense May 18, 2008. javascript processing-js
Three Processing.js Examples May 14, 2008. javascript processing-js
Using Javascript to Control Processing May 11, 2008. javascript processing-js
Getting Started with Processing.js May 10, 2008. javascript processing-js
Our Yellow Woods, and a Story May 7, 2008. haiku poem
Writing Join in Erlang May 4, 2008. functional erlang
Photographing Japan May 4, 2008. japan photo
A Picture of a Couple May 3, 2008. japan photo
Spring Haiku and Tanka May 3, 2008. haiku tanka
Thoughts on Dating Erlang April 30, 2008. functional erlang
Haiku for an April April 20, 2008. haiku
Designing Elesma April 13, 2008. cocoa elesma
A Week In The Job April 12, 2008. jet japan
Failed Night Time Pictures of Sakura Blossoms April 5, 2008. japan
A Brief Winter Hike April 5, 2008. hiking japan
Opening Files With Associated App in Cocoa April 5, 2008. objc cocoa
Tip Your Hat To Accessors And Mutators March 12, 2008. object-oriented
Handling Files With CoreData March 12, 2008. objc coredata cocoa
Catching Up On Some Thoughts March 10, 2008. jet japan
Tools, Languages, and Squeak March 1, 2008. squeak
Quick Reflections on JET in Haiku February 27, 2008. jet japan
Assigning One To Many Relationships in CoreData February 24, 2008. objc coredata cocoa
Spring Doesn't Come in February, But Snow Does February 24, 2008. jet japan
On Writing February 19, 2008. thoughts writing
Filtering Arrays in Objective C February 15, 2008. functional objc
Teaching Elementary Classes as an ALT February 14, 2008. jet education japan elementary
My First Sickday in Japan February 13, 2008. jet japan
Midnight Philosophy in The Garden of Good and Evil February 12, 2008. thoughts
Seeking Some Music I Can't Find February 11, 2008. music idm
Some Biased Analysis of Music Videos February 4, 2008. music
Using Our Own Software February 4, 2008. thoughts software
Using Optional Parameters in Django Urls February 4, 2008. django python
Technical Aspects of the Life Flow Editor February 3, 2008. django lifeflow lifeflow-editor
Introducting the LifeFlow Editor February 3, 2008. lifeflow
Why Was The Syllabus Born? January 28, 2008. education
On Hegemony and an Anti-Capitalist Bias in European Textbooks January 26, 2008. education
Hot Water Is Broken January 26, 2008. japan
5. A Chartered Bus to Downtown Tokyo January 25, 2008.
Standard Workflow for Publishing With LifeFlow January 24, 2008.
Replacing the Karma Social Model with Whuffie January 22, 2008. thoughts
Catching Lessons From Spam January 22, 2008. lifeflow spam
Translating Entries into Other Languages with LifeFlow January 22, 2008. lifeflow translations
A Historical Perspective on the JET Program in 2008 January 22, 2008. jet
On The Causes and Cures of Malware January 21, 2008. os-x microsoft
Failures of Proactive Communication & Other Generic Complaints January 20, 2008. jet
かかった年と新しい年の取り返し January 19, 2008.
生きて変わる January 19, 2008.
Opinionated Programming Languages, The Huddled Masses, and Elitism January 19, 2008. language-design scheme java community
Lesson Plan: My Winter Vacation January 16, 2008. english jet lesson-plan
New Style for Including Resources in Entries on LifeFlow January 15, 2008. lifeflow
Adding Arbitrary Mods to LifeFlow January 15, 2008. lifeflow
Changes from Living January 13, 2008. thoughts
Introduction to Kamioka-cho, Hida-shi, Gifu-ken, Japan January 10, 2008. jet japan kamioka
Odors from Shoes Curious in OS X 10.4 January 10, 2008. shoes ruby
Driving on the Left Side January 9, 2008. jet japan
Don't Repeat Yourself for Bloggers: Dynamic Blog Context in LifeFlow January 9, 2008. blog lifeflow markdown
Cleanly Extending Python Markdown with Syntax Highlighting January 9, 2008. python markdown
Update to Lethain.com January 7, 2008.
Customizing LifeFlow Quickly with Skins January 7, 2008. lifeflow skinning
Installing a Development Deployment of LifeFlow, a Django Blog Solution January 7, 2008. blog django lifeflow install
Reflections on the old year, and the new one January 6, 2008. jet japan thoughts
BluePrint CSS makes LifeFlow look better, and easier to customize January 6, 2008. lifeflow blueprint
Music Recommendations & Snow Pictures January 5, 2008. japan kamioka winter
Implementing Threaded Comments in LifeFlow January 4, 2008. django lifeflow
Visiting Kiyomizudera January 3, 2008. japan travel
Status Update for LifeFlow January 3, 2008. lifeflow
Accolades for Pygments 0.9 January 3, 2008. python
Actors in Common Lisp January 3, 2008. actors common-lisp
Packaging of Renu Contact Solution January 1, 2008. japan
Miyajima and Hiroshima December 29, 2007. japan travel
Designing My Future Home December 29, 2007. architecture
Another Breakfast With You December 29, 2007. food
Another Slight Mistake... December 27, 2007. blog
Merry Christmas 2007 December 24, 2007. food
Moving Writings to Separate Flow December 24, 2007. blog
Two-Faced Django Part 7: PyFacebook and FBJS Ajax December 17, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django
Upgrading from 256 to 512 megs of ram December 16, 2007. slicehost
Two-Faced Django: Live install December 16, 2007. pyfacebook django dreamhost
Two-Faced-Django Part 6: PyFacebook December 12, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django
Two-Faced Django Part 5: JQuery Ajax December 11, 2007. jquery django
4. Airplanes December 9, 2007. writing
Two-Faced Django Part 4: The Webapp December 9, 2007. django
Two-Faced Django Part 3: Newforms December 4, 2007. django newforms
Two-Faced Django Part 2: Models and Django Testing December 4, 2007. django testing
Two-Faced Django Part 1: Building a project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web December 4, 2007. pyfacebook django
3. Shuttle Busses December 2, 2007. writing
On Education, Self-Responsibility and Manure December 2, 2007. education
2. Traffic Jams December 1, 2007. writing
1. Beginnings December 1, 2007. writing
0. Introduction December 1, 2007. writing
Using JQuery with Django for Autocomplete Fields November 30, 2007. jquery django
Using PyFacebook without the Facebook middleware November 30, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django python
Human Error November 24, 2007.
"You Are Beautiful At All Times" by Yppah November 5, 2007. yppah music review
Context is a Parameter in Calculating Truth November 5, 2007. pirsig thoughts
Those Annoying Habits November 5, 2007. jet japan
Defining Your Web Aesthetic October 24, 2007. design
Introducing my Japanese Kitchen October 21, 2007. jet japan
Hiking Tengaisan October 21, 2007. jet hiking japan
Reliable Mealtime Friends October 20, 2007. food japan
Grocery Shopping in Japan October 19, 2007. food japan
Getting Cold in Kamioka October 18, 2007. japan
Teaching Adult English Classes October 18, 2007. english adult education japan
Getting started with Shoes on OS X October 15, 2007. shoes ruby
Expectations and Reality for the lowly ALT October 14, 2007. jet japan
FAQ about JET October 13, 2007. jet
A Few Quick Updates to Site October 12, 2007. blog
Back in Action October 10, 2007.
Eating Cornflakes August 20, 2007. jet japan
Leaving Tokyo, Arriving in Kamioka August 20, 2007. jet japan
From America into an American Bubble: The Flight to Japan August 9, 2007. jet japan
JET Pre-Departure Orientation July 29, 2007. jet japan
Picture from Hotel Room July 29, 2007. japan tokyo
Heading toward Atlanta July 26, 2007. jet japan
Applying to the JET Programme July 19, 2007. jet japan
Failure of Implicit Conventions: Determining Function Destructiveness July 18, 2007. functional language-design
"Building Scalable Web Sites" by Cal Henderson July 17, 2007. review scaling
Dreamier Dream Server with Nginx July 17, 2007. django slicehost ubuntu memcache postgresql apache nginx
Apache/Lighttpd Confusion July 17, 2007. apache lighttpd
Adding Social Bookmarking To a Django App July 14, 2007. django python
Syntax Highlighting with MarkDown, and a pinch of Automagick for Django July 14, 2007. django python
Music Video? Movie? The 'Once' Dilemma July 14, 2007. movie once
Extracting Models From Django Datadump July 13, 2007. django python
Creating my Dream Server for Django July 13, 2007. django lighttpd memcache postgresql slicehost ubuntu
New Look for LifeFlow, Deployment on Dreamhost July 12, 2007. lifeflow
"Puddle City Racing Lights" by Windmill July 12, 2007. music review windmill
YouTube Scalability July 8, 2007. scaling
Stability Issues July 5, 2007. fail
How to Migrate Data Across Model Changes July 1, 2007. django python
Writing Custom Contexts for Django July 1, 2007. django python
Examining Web Analytics to Implement (repost) June 21, 2007. writing
A Django Middleware for Google Analytics (repost) June 14, 2007. django
Anti-Objects and Reflexive Decisions (repost) June 7, 2007. ruby writing
A Comp. Sci Degree is What You Make Of It (repost) June 5, 2007. writing
Is the JVM the "next assembly"? I hope not. (repost) June 4, 2007. writing java
Reflections on Django (repost) June 1, 2007. django writing
Good to Great, Paul Graham and Ayn Rand (repost) June 1, 2007. writing
Finding Our Programming Flow (repost) April 7, 2007. writing

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