1. How to present to executives. January 2, 2021. management staff-plus
  2. Early Edition of "Staff Engineer" coming Jan 31st. January 1, 2021. staff-eng book
  3. Pacing and isolating change. December 21, 2020. management
  4. Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. December 18, 2020. management career
  5. Interesting work happens at the edges. December 17, 2020. management career
  6. 2020 in review. December 10, 2020. career blog
  7. Weak and strong team concepts. December 5, 2020. staff-plus
  8. What do Staff engineers actually do? December 3, 2020. staff-plus
  9. Managing Staff-plus engineers. November 27, 2020. staff-plus management
  10. Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring. November 26, 2020. staff-plus strategy
  11. Mailbag: Advice for someone five years into their tech career? November 23, 2020. career mailbag
  12. Notes on compliance tools. November 22, 2020. compliance notes
  13. Interviewing for Staff-plus roles. November 20, 2020. staff-plus
  14. Finding your Staff sponsor. November 19, 2020. management staff-plus
  15. My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools. November 18, 2020. productivity
  16. Renegotiating your first vendor contract. November 14, 2020. management
  17. Speaking and podcasts in 2020. November 13, 2020. talks speaking podcast
  18. Engineering strategy every org should write. November 7, 2020. management strategy
  19. Surplus rules of engineering strategy. November 7, 2020. management strategy
  20. Care and feeding for your engineering strategy. November 7, 2020. management strategy
  21. Things that aren't engineering strategy. November 7, 2020. management strategy
  22. A survey of engineering strategies. November 7, 2020. management strategy
  23. Engineering strategy. November 5, 2020. management strategy staff-plus
  24. Developer productivity surveys. October 18, 2020. productivity
  25. Managing technical quality in a codebase. October 17, 2020. staff-plus architecture
  26. Finding the right company to reach Staff Engineer. October 8, 2020. staff-plus career
  27. Deciding to switch companies. October 1, 2020. staff-plus career
  28. TechWriters community. September 26, 2020. techwriters
  29. Being visible. September 24, 2020. staff-plus career
  30. Staff projects. September 17, 2020. staff-plus
  31. Work on what matters. September 10, 2020. staff-plus
  32. Using QR Codes in printed books. September 7, 2020. python elegant-puzzle
  33. Build a network of peers. September 4, 2020. staff-plus
  34. Performative leadership. August 23, 2020. management
  35. The Grand Migration. August 13, 2020. architecture pattern anti-pattern
  36. Promotion pathologies. August 9, 2020. management
  37. Staff promotion packets. August 8, 2020. staff-plus
  38. The Saint-Exupéry of metrics. August 6, 2020. metrics management
  39. Some common hiring manager mistakes. August 2, 2020. hiring management
  40. Customizing screen and screenrc. July 26, 2020. screen
  41. Create space for others. July 26, 2020. staff-plus
  42. Staff-plus interview processes. July 12, 2020. staff-plus interviewing
  43. External office hours. July 7, 2020. management
  44. Does the Staff title even matter? June 28, 2020. staff-plus career
  45. Where do Staff-plus engineers fit into the org? June 28, 2020. staff-plus management
  46. StaffEng Updates, June 2020 June 23, 2020. staff-eng
  47. Stuff I've learned about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion over the past few years. June 20, 2020. inclusion management
  48. How to practice backend engineering. June 20, 2020. architecture interviewing
  49. Trapped in a Values Oasis. June 18, 2020. management
  50. My career story. June 14, 2020. stories career
  51. Mentoring from privilege. June 13, 2020. mentorship
  52. Ways I'm available to help. June 12, 2020.
  53. Black Lives Matter. May 30, 2020. stories
  54. To lead, you have to follow. May 25, 2020. management
  55. The rush to "show value." May 5, 2020. management
  56. April updates for StaffEng. April 23, 2020. staff-eng
  57. Picking problems for programming interviews. April 19, 2020. interviewing staff-plus python
  58. Minding our stories. April 16, 2020. tech stories
  59. Testing Python projects for Google Cloud Run. April 11, 2020. gcp python
  60. Staff engineer archetypes. April 9, 2020. staff-plus management
  61. Poking around Contentful. April 5, 2020. contentful
  62. Build versus buy. April 5, 2020. management
  63. Staying aligned with authority. April 2, 2020. staff-plus management
  64. Getting in the room. March 28, 2020. staff-plus management
  65. Learn to never be wrong. March 21, 2020. staff-plus
  66. How do folks reach Staff Engineer? March 19, 2020. staff-eng
  67. Hotspotting developer productivity. March 17, 2020. architecture productivity
  68. vtt-compactor: slightly less verbose VTT files. March 7, 2020.
  69. Resources for Staff-plus engineers. March 7, 2020. staff-plus
  70. From one to two: how to start a successful distributed engineering office. March 3, 2020. management
  71. Interviewing senior engineering leaders. February 18, 2020. management hiring
  72. Mailbag: Evolving your engineer career beyond the career level. February 13, 2020. career staff-eng mailbag
  73. Crowdsourcing CTO/VPE learning circles. February 11, 2020. management
  74. Do you work at a tech company? February 10, 2020. culture hiring
  75. Share stories, not advice. February 4, 2020. management
  76. How to partner with an executive assistant. January 28, 2020. management
  77. Example Call For Proposals submissions. January 25, 2020. conferences speaking
  78. Joining Calm. January 21, 2020. calm career
  79. Some rough notes on running learning circles. January 18, 2020. management
  80. How to build your company's engineering brand. January 16, 2020. management
  81. More great memos. January 14, 2020. memos
  82. Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering. January 13, 2020. management cto
  83. How to navigate and/or survive your acquihire. January 2, 2020. acquisition management
  84. How the Digg team was acquihired. January 1, 2020. digg stories acquisition
  85. 2019 in review. December 26, 2019. career blog
  86. "Good Process is Evolved, Not Designed" in 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know December 20, 2019. management writing
  87. Incident response, programs and you(r startup). December 19, 2019. reliability infrastructure
  88. Mailbag: When your team wants your job, personal brand, and service registries. December 9, 2019. management mailbag
  89. Maintaining platform-product fit. November 25, 2019. infrastructure
  90. "How to successfully design organizational processes" November 23, 2019. management speaking talks
  91. "Do engineering managers need to be technical?" in Increment. November 22, 2019. increment management writing
  92. Expanding on S[a-z]{3,} Reliability Engineer roles. November 18, 2019. sre infrastructure
  93. Notes on Building Evolutionary Architectures. November 15, 2019. architecture book
  94. You only learn when you reflect. November 14, 2019. career management
  95. Distributing your Slack application. November 11, 2019. slack python gcp
  96. Using Cloud Firestore to power a Slack app. November 10, 2019. slack python gcp
  97. Make Slack app respond to reacji. November 9, 2019. api slack python
  98. Adding App Home to Slack app in Python. November 8, 2019. api slack python
  99. Creating a Slack App in Python on GCP. November 6, 2019. api slack python gcp
  100. HMAC SHA256 signatures in Python and Flask. November 6, 2019. python slack
  101. Forecasting synthetic metrics. November 5, 2019. metrics infrastructure reliability
  102. Sending weekly 5-15 updates. November 3, 2019. management
  103. "Investing in technical infrastructure" October 31, 2019. infrastructure speaking talks
  104. Healthchecks at scale. October 27, 2019. infrastructure architecture
  105. An Elegant Puzzle by the numbers, five months later. October 23, 2019. elegant-puzzle
  106. Founding Monocle Studios. October 22, 2019. stories monocle-studios
  107. Nobody cares about quality. October 12, 2019. management
  108. A forty year career. October 8, 2019. career
  109. Notes on data modeling from Handbook of Relational Database Design. September 13, 2019. book
  110. Organizing team offsites. September 8, 2019. management
  111. Rewriting the Yahoo! BOSS Datahub. August 31, 2019. stories yahoo
  112. Describing fault domains. August 17, 2019. architecture infrastructure
  113. Distributed systems vocabulary. August 11, 2019. architecture infrastructure
  114. Reclaim unreasonable software. July 28, 2019. architecture
  115. What's the inverse of literate programming. July 14, 2019. literal rust
  116. Head in the clouds. July 7, 2019. cloud infrastructure
  117. Don't follow the sun. July 3, 2019. reliability infrastructure
  118. Notes on Escaping the Build Trap June 30, 2019. product book review
  119. Fostering program engagement. June 26, 2019. management org-programs
  120. Programs: tips for owning the unownable. June 25, 2019. management org-programs
  121. Some career advice. June 22, 2019. career
  122. Running systems library as Cloud Function. June 16, 2019. systems gcf cloud
  123. Path to engineering manager of managers. June 15, 2019. management career
  124. An Elegant Puzzle @ Software Engineering Daily June 14, 2019. elegant-puzzle podcast
  125. What I learned writing a book. June 8, 2019. elegant-puzzle writing
  126. Privilege's upward-facing window. June 1, 2019. management inclusion
  127. Elegant Puzzle press, reviews and podcasts. May 29, 2019. elegant-puzzle podcast writing
  128. An Elegant Puzzle is released today! May 28, 2019. elegant-puzzle management writing
  129. Make timeline tradeoffs using iterative elimination tournaments. May 25, 2019. management
  130. How to invest in technical infrastructure. May 19, 2019. infrastructure
  131. Can governments design great APIs? Let's hope so. May 12, 2019. data-localization
  132. An Elegant Puzzle is available for pre-order. April 25, 2019. elegant-puzzle
  133. To innovate, first deprecate. April 7, 2019. infrastructure systems-thinking
  134. Magnitudes of exploration. April 6, 2019. management infrastructure
  135. An Elegant Puzzle coming in late May. April 1, 2019. elegant-puzzle
  136. Fire fixation. March 23, 2019. management
  137. Rules of thumb for org design. March 17, 2019. management
  138. How to evolve an engineering organization. March 5, 2019. management
  139. Paying the predictability tax. February 24, 2019. management
  140. Valuing already-solved problems. February 23, 2019. product
  141. Why limiting work-in-progress works. February 17, 2019. management systems-thinking
  142. Binder for hosting Jupyter notebooks. February 10, 2019. systems-thinking systems binder
  143. Writing a reliability strategy: reason about complex things with system models. February 9, 2019. infrastructure systems-thinking systems
  144. Notes on Soul of a New Machine, Messy Middle, Crazy at Work, Company of One. February 2, 2019. book review management
  145. Growing with your company's complexity. January 29, 2019. management career
  146. Meeting people. January 26, 2019. management career
  147. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management. January 22, 2019. elegant-puzzle management writing
  148. Newsletter for Irrational Exuberance. January 20, 2019. newsletter
  149. Metrics for the unmeasurable. January 19, 2019. management metrics
  150. Some delightful developer experiences in 2019. January 7, 2019. apis product
  151. Good process is evolved, not designed. January 1, 2019. management
  152. Defining policy, process and programs. December 30, 2018. management
  153. Notes on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. December 29, 2018. programming review book
  154. 2018 in review. December 27, 2018. writing blog
  155. "Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations" December 13, 2018. infrastructure speaking talks
  156. Infrastructure planning: users, baselines and timeframes. December 9, 2018. infrastructure management
  157. Notes on The Timeless Way of Building November 24, 2018. book review architecture
  158. Quick tutorial on using GraphQL with Python. November 18, 2018. graphql python
  159. Headcount dilemmas. November 15, 2018. management
  160. Speaking at QCon SF 2018 about migrations. November 5, 2018. speaking
  161. Talent distributions. November 4, 2018. management
  162. Landing in the JET Program. October 15, 2018. stories jet japan
  163. Capturing resources. October 14, 2018. management
  164. Quick blogging update for October 2018 October 13, 2018. writing
  165. Notes on The Pyramid Principle. October 1, 2018. book review
  166. System dynamics in a jupyter notebook. September 30, 2018. systems jupyter
  167. Career narratives. September 26, 2018. management career
  168. Saying no. September 23, 2018. management
  169. Work the policy, not the exceptions. September 23, 2018. management
  170. Modeling a hiring funnel with Systems library. September 18, 2018. systems-thinking hiring
  171. Introduction to systems thinking. September 4, 2018. management systems-thinking
  172. Notes on A Philosophy of Software Design. September 3, 2018. architecture review book
  173. Designing interview loops. September 2, 2018. management hiring
  174. Communities of learning. September 1, 2018. management
  175. Time management: the leadership meta-problem. August 27, 2018. management
  176. Problem exploration, selection and validation. August 20, 2018. management product
  177. Introducing SREs, TPMs and other specialized roles. August 13, 2018. management
  178. Career levels, designation momentum, etc. August 11, 2018. management
  179. Designations, levels and calibrations. August 10, 2018. management
  180. Make your peers your first team. August 8, 2018. management
  181. Digg v4 @ Internet History Podcast August 6, 2018. digg podcast
  182. Presenting to executives. August 6, 2018. management
  183. Your hiring funnel. August 1, 2018. management hiring
  184. Scaling consistency. July 30, 2018. management
  185. Book recommendations. July 24, 2018. management book review
  186. Succession planning. July 23, 2018. management
  187. Identify your controls. July 21, 2018. management
  188. Opportunity & Membership. July 17, 2018. management inclusion
  189. Service cookbooks. July 15, 2018. infrastructure
  190. Sizing engineering teams. July 14, 2018. management
  191. Selecting project leads. July 12, 2018. management inclusion
  192. Writing strategies and visions. July 9, 2018. management leadership
  193. Braindump on approach to writing a technical book. July 8, 2018. writing
  194. Guiding broad change with metrics. July 6, 2018. metrics management leadership
  195. Goals and baselines. July 5, 2018. metrics management
  196. Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity. July 2, 2018. stories digg
  197. My rails for engineering leadership. July 1, 2018. leadership management
  198. Accelerate's definition of developer productivity. June 27, 2018. infrastructure devtools
  199. The briefest of media trainings. June 24, 2018. management
  200. A case against top-down global optimization. June 23, 2018. management
  201. Infrastructure migrations @ Interestings June 22, 2018. podcast infrastructure
  202. Staying on the path to high performing teams. June 17, 2018. management
  203. Where to stash your organizational risk? June 13, 2018. management
  204. Experiment with distributed finite state machines. June 2, 2018. infrastructure go
  205. You can't reason about big balls of mud. May 23, 2018. architecture infrastructure
  206. Consider the team you have for senior positions. May 19, 2018. management hiring
  207. Setting organizational direction. May 9, 2018. management
  208. Model, document and share. April 26, 2018. management
  209. Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. April 15, 2018. infrastructure management
  210. Reflections on the Systems & Papers. April 14, 2018. retrospective
  211. The Redis Protocol is pretty great. April 10, 2018. redis protocols infrastructure
  212. Some of my favorite technical papers. April 7, 2018. infrastructure software-engineering
  213. Close out, solve or delegate. March 29, 2018. management
  214. Managing in the growth plates. March 21, 2018. management
  215. Infrastructure engineering @ Inside Intercom March 20, 2018. podcast infrastructure
  216. Notes from "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy." March 1, 2018. management review book
  217. How I write group emails at work. February 17, 2018. management
  218. Refactoring Ruby programmatically. February 13, 2018. ruby devtools
  219. Seth Godin's The Dip. February 11, 2018. review book
  220. Product management in infrastructure engineering. February 6, 2018. infrastructure product management
  221. Global secondary indexes. January 30, 2018. infrastructure storage
  222. Experimenting with content and distribution. January 27, 2018. writing
  223. Inclusion in the first shift. January 23, 2018. management
  224. Vulnerability. January 20, 2018. management
  225. The physics of Cloud expansion. January 16, 2018. infrastructure cloud
  226. Async processing with sync semantics? January 15, 2018. infrastructure data
  227. Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know. January 8, 2018. management hiring
  228. Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak predictor of personal growth. January 2, 2018. management career
  229. Engineering management stuff I learned in 2017. December 29, 2017. infrastructure management
  230. Analyzing cross-service requests with Apache Beam. November 26, 2017. python infrastructure data
  231. From lambda to kappa and dataflow paradigms. November 22, 2017. architecture
  232. Tools for operating a growing organization. November 18, 2017. management
  233. Sketching out failure injection on Kubernetes. May 20, 2017. k8s
  234. Simple Continuous Deployment on GKE with gke_ci May 18, 2017. k8s gke deployment
  235. Trying out Google Container Engine May 14, 2017. k8s gke
  236. Providing pierceable abstractions. May 7, 2017. architecture
  237. Options for orchestrating periodic tasks. April 30, 2017. architecture k8s
  238. Increment has launched. April 13, 2017. increment writing
  239. Notes from fifth blog rewrite April 2, 2017. blog
  240. Running an engineering reorg March 17, 2017. management reorg
  241. Partnering with your manager March 13, 2017. management
  242. Technology Inheritance March 7, 2017. software-engineering
  243. Infrastructure between cost center and ego trip March 5, 2017. infrastructure architecture management
  244. Ways Engineering Managers Get Stuck March 3, 2017. management
  245. Braindump on Load Generation December 18, 2016. architecture load testing braindump
  246. Finding Managerial Scope October 31, 2016. management
  247. Usable QA Environments October 24, 2016. architecture qa
  248. Serverless: Gatekeeping and Profit Margins October 16, 2016. architecture serverless
  249. Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. October 10, 2016. management
  250. You Should Take More Vacation October 1, 2016. management
  251. Acing Your Architecture Interview September 27, 2016. interviewing
  252. Fail Open and Layer Policy September 20, 2016. architecture
  253. Thoughts on Envoy's Design September 18, 2016. architecture
  254. QoS, Cost & Quotas September 11, 2016. architecture scaling
  255. Running a Humane Interview Process June 9, 2016. management hiring
  256. Healing a Burned Out Team May 29, 2016. management burnout
  257. Wherein I Rewrite My Blog a Fifth Time May 20, 2016. blog
  258. Your Philosophy of Management May 7, 2016. management
  259. Adding Value as an Engineering Manager September 26, 2015. management
  260. Developing service oriented architectures. June 1, 2014. infrastructure architecture
  261. Building a Software Deployment Pipeline March 30, 2014. architecture software-engineering deployment
  262. Irrational Exuberance's Fourth Coming March 24, 2014. blog
  263. Company Culture and Managing Freedoms February 9, 2014. management software-engineering
  264. War Card Game in Python December 2, 2012. python
  265. Reflection on RethinkDB December 2, 2012. rethinkdb
  266. Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder November 25, 2012. software-engineering management
  267. Configuration Driven Behavior November 25, 2012. architecture software-engineering
  268. Extraction: Get Metadata from HTML Documents November 23, 2012. extraction python
  269. Social Hierarchies in Engineering Organizations November 4, 2012. management software-engineering
  270. Creating Multi-Worksheet Excel Docs with xlwt November 4, 2012. python excel
  271. Building Technical Leverage November 4, 2012. software-engineering architecture
  272. Hosting a Paper Reading Group October 28, 2012. management software-engineering
  273. Why Pagination Was Hard at Digg August 25, 2012. digg
  274. Slack and Hope for Middle Management August 25, 2012. management
  275. Digg v4's Architecture and Development Processes August 19, 2012. digg architecture
  276. Writing, Analytics and Analysis April 10, 2011. blog analytics sisyphus
  277. Storing Bounded Timeboxes in Redis April 7, 2011. python redis
  278. Using Flot.js with the Digg Streaming API April 6, 2011. digg digg-streaming-api flot javascript
  279. Introduction to architecting systems for scale. April 4, 2011. infrastructure architecture
  280. How to Filter Bots From Analytics April 3, 2011. analytics
  281. Don't Make Me Defend Your Claims March 30, 2011. usability
  282. IE's New Infrastructure and Writing Workflow March 28, 2011. sisyphus redis git
  283. Irrational Exuberance's Third Rebirth March 27, 2011. sisyphus lifeflow blog
  284. Coding Projects March 27, 2011.
  285. Articles and Series March 27, 2011.
  286. Being Defensive January 22, 2011.
  287. Python Default Parameter Value Gotchas September 11, 2010. python
  288. Python Datastructures Backed by Redis September 5, 2010. python redis
  289. DjangoDash and Drinkfindr September 4, 2010. django
  290. Time to Load Redis Snapshots August 23, 2010. redis
  291. Notes on Redis Memory Usage August 22, 2010. redis
  292. SuperFamily Relationships with Lazyboy May 23, 2010. python cassandra lazyboy
  293. Tailing in Python May 16, 2010. python
  294. Callbacks Are An Informal Pipeline March 7, 2010. javascript node-js
  295. Porting Django's urlpatterns to Node.js March 6, 2010. javascript node-js
  296. Retiring and Releasing Codernote.com February 20, 2010. django
  297. The Day I Broke Production February 14, 2010. erlang stories
  298. Looking For a New Agenda February 7, 2010.
  299. Log Collection Server with Node.js January 30, 2010. javascript node-js
  300. Debugging Crashes With Small Scripts January 23, 2010. erlang
  301. A Python-Markdown Extension for Embedding Graphviz January 16, 2010. python markdown
  302. Formatting Multipart Formdata in Erlang January 10, 2010. erlang
  303. A Photo Album with Python and PIL January 4, 2010. python pil
  304. Refactoring & Testing Our Dynamo Clone January 2, 2010. erlang distributed-systems
  305. Quick Notes for Starting 2010 January 1, 2010.
  306. Crash on Compiling App With MKMapView December 31, 2009. iphone
  307. Nagios Monitoring for Erlang December 30, 2009. erlang
  308. Replicating receive-after in an Erlang gen_server December 13, 2009. erlang
  309. Durable Writes & Consistent Reads November 30, 2009. erlang distributed-systems
  310. Hands On Review of the Dynamo Paper November 30, 2009. erlang distributed-systems
  311. Recurring Events and Message Passing November 25, 2009. actors erlang clojure agents concurrency
  312. Scalable Scraping in Clojure November 24, 2009. screen-scraping clojure agents concurrency
  313. A Couple of Clojure Agent Examples November 22, 2009. actors clojure agents concurrency
  314. Writing Files in Clojure November 16, 2009. clojure
  315. Reading Files in Clojure November 15, 2009. clojure
  316. Setting Up TLA+ Tools on OS X October 31, 2009. tla
  317. Comments on "Why Engineers Should Consider Formal Methods" October 20, 2009. computer-science software-engineering
  318. Money or Meaning: Spending Our Wealth of Time October 11, 2009. essay
  319. Cleaning up erlang_markdown October 10, 2009. markdown erlang
  320. A Failed Stack-based Markdown Interpreter September 27, 2009. markdown erlang
  321. Proposal for Authenticating Web Callbacks September 20, 2009. web-callbacks
  322. Generating RSS feeds via BeepBeep September 20, 2009. beepbeep
  323. How Pitance Versions Documents in CouchDB September 17, 2009. couchdb pitance
  324. Erlang Brush for SyntaxHighlighter September 15, 2009. erlang pitance syntaxhighlighter
  325. Pitance: Template and Snippet Infrastructure September 13, 2009. beepbeep pitance
  326. Load Balancing Across Erlang Process Groups September 12, 2009. erlang
  327. Changing Mimetypes for Text Responses in BeepBeep September 3, 2009. beepbeep
  328. Paper Review of "Hints On Computer System Design" August 21, 2009. computer-science software-engineering
  329. Paper Review of "A Transaction Model" August 18, 2009. computer-science software-engineering transactions
  330. Success and Dancing Shoes July 31, 2009.
  331. Several Approaches to Versioning Files in PHP July 28, 2009. php
  332. Distinguishing Strings from Lists in Erlang July 24, 2009. erlang
  333. Freebase Hackday and Image Game July 12, 2009. acre freebase
  334. BeepBeep, CouchDB and a Trivial Blog July 9, 2009. erlang couchdb beepbeep
  335. Using Ajax with the BeepBeep Microframework July 6, 2009. jquery erlang beepbeep
  336. Getting Started With BeepBeep July 5, 2009. erlang beepbeep
  337. What Do Django People Search About? June 17, 2009. django
  338. YUI Dialogs, IE z-index and Tragedy June 16, 2009. fail yui
  339. Feedback Loops in Software Development June 1, 2009. software-engineering
  340. Recycling Hacker Fear-Mongering May 31, 2009. news
  341. Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery April 28, 2009. software-engineering
  342. OS X Textfield Encoding (maybe) Issue April 1, 2009. fail
  343. Findjango Redesign & Slides for django-nyc March 25, 2009. slides springsteen findjango
  344. How To Remotely Admin Servers Via Twitter March 22, 2009. python
  345. Findjango, A Week of Progress March 16, 2009. django findjango
  346. Making Django Apps Run On and Off GAE March 10, 2009. django google-app-engine
  347. Technical Debt and Peanut Butter Jars March 10, 2009. reflection software-engineering
  348. Findjango: A Django Search Vertical March 9, 2009. django springsteen findjango
  349. Solango and Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu Intrepid March 6, 2009. django ubuntu solango
  350. Simplified django-springsteen Deploy on GAE March 5, 2009. google-app-engine springsteen
  351. Deploying django-springsteen on Google App Engine March 5, 2009. django google-app-engine springsteen
  352. Reranking Results in django-springsteen February 26, 2009. django boss springsteen
  353. django-springsteen and Distributed Search February 25, 2009. django boss springsteen
  354. Leaving DreamHost February 23, 2009. dreamhost slicehost
  355. Depicting Human Relationships February 21, 2009. processing
  356. Smaller Header, JobSyndicate, Printable Articles February 19, 2009. blog
  357. Measuring Single and Multi Server Performance February 18, 2009. apache nginx mod_wsgi experiment
  358. Rewriting Parameterized URLs with Nginx February 16, 2009. nginx
  359. Overview of Single vs. Multi Server Architecture February 16, 2009. apache architecture nginx
  360. When psycopg2 Can't Import tz February 13, 2009. fail postgresql
  361. The Django and Ubuntu Intrepid Almanac February 13, 2009. django ubuntu memcache postgresql apache nginx mod_wsgi
  362. Visually Representing Word Structures February 10, 2009. processing
  363. Using Threadpools in Python February 10, 2009. python
  364. Setting up CouchDB-Lucene on OS X February 6, 2009. couchdb lucene
  365. We're All Sinners and Cosiners February 6, 2009. processing
  366. Circle and Line Diaspora February 5, 2009. processing
  367. Spiral and Square February 5, 2009. processing
  368. Visualizing Keyterms with BOSS and Processing February 4, 2009. boss processing
  369. Cull Lingering Erlang Heart Processes February 4, 2009. erlang
  370. Hard and Soft, Fluffy and Brittle February 3, 2009. software
  371. Simple Unittesting in PHP February 1, 2009. testing php
  372. Stripping Illegal Characters from XML in Python January 25, 2009. python
  373. Huge CSV and XML Files in Python January 22, 2009. python
  374. A Filter to Display Neighbors in a List January 20, 2009. design django
  375. Genetic Programming: A Novel Failure January 19, 2009. computer-science genetic-algorithms
  376. Genetic algorithms: cool name & damn simple. January 2, 2009. computer-science genetic-algorithms
  377. Moving Into 2009 January 2, 2009.
  378. Django-Portfolio: Organize and Display Projects December 29, 2008. django
  379. The Subtle Joys of Generic Methods December 11, 2008. common-lisp language-design python
  380. A Command Line Tool for Loading CouchDB Documents December 9, 2008. python couchdb
  381. Full-Text Search in CouchDB Using... CouchDB December 8, 2008. couchdb
  382. Blogging as People December 6, 2008. writing
  383. Intro to HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI December 5, 2008. perl
  384. Finally Waving The White Flag to Objective-C 2.0 December 4, 2008. objc
  385. Fixing What Ails LifeFlow December 3, 2008. lifeflow
  386. Prevent Cron Cancer With a File-based Mutex December 3, 2008. perl
  387. Parallel HTTP Requests in Python December 2, 2008. python
  388. Reading XML Files on the iPhone November 30, 2008. objc iphone
  389. A Different Approach to local_settings.py November 28, 2008. django
  390. XML::Twig for Large XML Files in Perl November 20, 2008. perl
  391. Slides from django-nyc on 11/18/2008 November 19, 2008. django slides
  392. Python-Brightkite for... you get the idea November 16, 2008. python
  393. Introducing a Tutorial and touchDefense November 11, 2008. cocos2d monocle-studios touchdefense
  394. The Blogging Hypochondriac November 8, 2008. thoughts writing
  395. The Fate of Pop and Hip-Hop in 2008 November 7, 2008. music
  396. XML::Simple for Non-Perlers November 7, 2008. perl
  397. You Only Learn the First Time November 6, 2008. writing
  398. Bad Ideas and Regular Expressions in Templates November 5, 2008. django templates
  399. Deploying Django with Fabric November 4, 2008. django python fabric
  400. Development to Deployment in Django November 3, 2008. django
  401. Creating Slideshows with Cocos2d iPhone October 29, 2008. cocos2d iphone
  402. Customize site style by user with django-userskins October 27, 2008. django
  403. User Registration Apps for Django October 25, 2008. django
  404. Releasing Kappa Source (PyObjC Twitter Client) October 23, 2008. pyobjc source
  405. Advice to Programmers in College October 22, 2008. writing
  406. Touch Detection in Cocos2d iPhone October 20, 2008. objc cocos2d iphone
  407. Being a Local Maximum October 19, 2008. writing contract
  408. HSS and YUI Compressor in AYM CMS October 19, 2008. aym-cms
  409. R.I.P. Your Resume Site to Awesome October 18, 2008. python aym-cms
  410. Taming AuditTrail Proliferation October 16, 2008. django
  411. Releasing Source for Mahou October 16, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino
  412. Choosing Between AuditTrail and Django-Rcsfield October 15, 2008. django
  413. Setting Up Django-Rcsfield October 15, 2008. django python
  414. Restricting User Signups in Django October 12, 2008. django
  415. Failing a Contract October 11, 2008. fail writing contract
  416. The Magical Source of YUI Get's Power October 3, 2008. javascript yui
  417. Notes on Cocos2d iPhone Development October 3, 2008. cocoa cocos2d iphone
  418. Suffer Less By Using Django Dev Server as a Proxy September 30, 2008. django prototyping
  419. Writing for Consumption September 29, 2008. writing
  420. Starting Again, Keeping It Simple September 27, 2008. reflection
  421. As-You-Type Slug Uniqueness Validation September 26, 2008. jquery django python
  422. Layers of Authentication September 25, 2008. django
  423. Custom Django Views for Happier Ajax September 24, 2008. jquery django javascript
  424. Using Automator to Scale Images Horizontally September 22, 2008. os-x
  425. Redesign of Lethain.com September 21, 2008. design
  426. Intro to Unintrusive JavaScript with Django September 21, 2008. jquery django javascript
  427. A One-Stop AYM CMS Solution September 17, 2008. aym-cms
  428. Making Static Dynamic Again; AYM CMS September 15, 2008. django aym-cms
  429. Intricate Static Websites With Django Templates September 15, 2008. django python
  430. Sparklines.js Port to Python September 13, 2008. python sparklines-js
  431. Yes, You Do Care About Cappuccino September 12, 2008. cappuccino
  432. Extending Mahou; Gotchas and Snippets September 12, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino mahou
  433. Extracting Data From Google Analytics Reports September 11, 2008. python
  434. Extending Classes in Cappuccino September 7, 2008. cappuccino
  435. Writing Mahou; a Cappuccino Image Search September 6, 2008. google-app-engine boss cappuccino mahou
  436. Startups and Assembly Lines September 5, 2008. entrepreneurship essay framing
  437. Migrating the 'This Week in Django' Concept September 5, 2008. django
  438. Poor Wireless Connectivity for MacBook September 4, 2008. fail os-x
  439. Naming and Casing Convention in PyObjC September 4, 2008. pyobjc
  440. Introducing Kappa, a Twitter Client September 3, 2008. os-x kappa
  441. I Live in New Jersey September 1, 2008. nj
  442. Dynamic Ad Targeting With django-monetize August 29, 2008. django django_monetize
  443. Transcending Search-as-You-Type Stickiness August 29, 2008. design ui
  444. Epic PyObjC, Part 5: Resources and Farewell August 27, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
  445. Epic PyObjc, Part 4: Drag & Drop, Multiple Nibs August 26, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
  446. Epic PyObjC, Part 3: Browsing, Caching, Indicating August 25, 2008. python os-x cocoa pyobjc
  447. Epic PyObjC, Part 2: Adding a Library & Bindings August 24, 2008. python cocoa pyobjc
  448. An Epic Introduction to PyObjC and Cocoa August 22, 2008. python cocoa pyobjc
  449. Writing to Application Support in PyObjC August 22, 2008. cocoa pyobjc
  450. Writing Titles Under Ninety-Five Characters August 20, 2008. fail
  451. Deleting From NSOutlineView With the Delete Key August 20, 2008. cocoa pyobjc
  452. How to Use Selectors in PyObjC August 19, 2008. pyobjc
  453. An Introduction to Using CouchDB with Django August 18, 2008. django couchdb
  454. Global Popularity of Programming Languages August 14, 2008.
  455. An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping August 10, 2008. python screen-scraping
  456. A Syntax Coloring Template Filter for Django August 9, 2008. django python
  457. A Year Later, Home From Japan August 9, 2008. japan
  458. Python Content Scraper for OneManga.com August 8, 2008. python screen-scraping
  459. Reading "The Nudist on the Late Shift" in 2008 August 7, 2008. review entrepreneurship
  460. Cocoa Drag and Drop text into the Dock Icon August 6, 2008. objc cocoa pyobjc
  461. How to Write a Wrapper Library August 4, 2008. design
  462. BossArray for list-like Yahoo search results July 28, 2008. python boss
  463. Replacing Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy July 23, 2008. django
  464. Replacing Django's Template Language With Jinja2 July 22, 2008. django jinja
  465. An Introduction to Django's Loose Coupling July 22, 2008. django
  466. Reflections on a Year of Blogging and Japan July 21, 2008. japan reflection
  467. 小学校と教える授業の最後の日 July 18, 2008. jet japan
  468. Last Day of Elementary School and Classes July 18, 2008. jet japan
  469. Stripping Reddit From HackerNews With BOSS Mashup July 12, 2008. python boss
  470. Polishing Up Our Django & BOSS Search Service July 12, 2008. django boss
  471. Search Recipes for Yahoo's BOSS in Python July 11, 2008. python boss
  472. Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service in Django July 10, 2008. django boss
  473. Release of LifeFlow 0.91 July 7, 2008. lifeflow
  474. Advice for ALTs Considering a Second Year July 7, 2008. jet japan
  475. A Thursday: Elementary School July 2, 2008. jet japan
  476. An Introduction to a Week in Japan July 2, 2008. jet japan
  477. ReST, Textile and HTML in Markdown July 1, 2008. lifeflow markdown
  478. Updates to Sparklines.js June 30, 2008. javascript processing-js sparklines-js
  479. Sparklines in Javascript With Sparklines.js June 26, 2008. javascript processing-js sparklines-js
  480. JSON, Object Oriented Views, and Starting a Real App June 22, 2008. django python
  481. Ambush Code Review Learns Code Diffs June 18, 2008. django google-app-engine
  482. Overview of Using Django on the Google App Engine June 17, 2008. django google-app-engine
  483. A Sunday Project: Ambush Code Review June 16, 2008. django google-app-engine
  484. Up to Speed June 15, 2008. django
  485. A Django Anti-Pattern, Rolling Your Own REST June 13, 2008. django rest anti-pattern
  486. Minimalism June 11, 2008. django python
  487. Working on LifeFlow's Public Face June 11, 2008. django lifeflow
  488. Release of LifeFlow Version 0.90 June 10, 2008. django lifeflow lifeflow-editor
  489. Deployment Scripts With BeautifulSoup June 9, 2008. python ptd
  490. Processed Tower Defense 1.0 June 9, 2008. javascript ptd
  491. Things I'll Miss in Japan June 8, 2008. jet japan
  492. Strangest JavaScript Bug I've Ever Seen June 6, 2008. javascript
  493. Looking for Recycling's Lost Sex Appeal June 3, 2008. japan environment
  494. Updates to Processed Tower Defense May 28, 2008. javascript processing-js
  495. May in Review May 27, 2008. jet japan
  496. Processing.jsの使い方 May 26, 2008. javascript processing-js
  497. Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience May 25, 2008. language-design thoughts
  498. Music From the iTunes Store, 1 May 21, 2008. music
  499. Improvements to LifeFlow Editor May 21, 2008. lifeflow lifeflow-editor
  500. Updating Processing.js Graphics via Ajax May 20, 2008. javascript processing-js
  501. Design of Processed Tower Defense May 18, 2008. javascript processing-js
  502. Three Processing.js Examples May 14, 2008. javascript processing-js
  503. Using Javascript to Control Processing May 11, 2008. javascript processing-js
  504. Getting Started with Processing.js May 10, 2008. javascript processing-js
  505. Our Yellow Woods, and a Story May 7, 2008. haiku poem
  506. Writing Join in Erlang May 4, 2008. functional erlang
  507. Photographing Japan May 4, 2008. japan photo
  508. A Picture of a Couple May 3, 2008. japan photo
  509. Spring Haiku and Tanka May 3, 2008. haiku tanka
  510. Thoughts on Dating Erlang April 30, 2008. functional erlang
  511. Haiku for an April April 20, 2008. haiku
  512. Designing Elesma April 13, 2008. cocoa elesma
  513. A Week In The Job April 12, 2008. jet japan
  514. Failed Night Time Pictures of Sakura Blossoms April 5, 2008. japan
  515. A Brief Winter Hike April 5, 2008. hiking japan
  516. Opening Files With Associated App in Cocoa April 5, 2008. objc cocoa
  517. Tip Your Hat To Accessors And Mutators March 12, 2008. object-oriented
  518. Handling Files With CoreData March 12, 2008. objc coredata cocoa
  519. Catching Up On Some Thoughts March 10, 2008. jet japan
  520. Tools, Languages, and Squeak March 1, 2008. squeak
  521. Quick Reflections on JET in Haiku February 27, 2008. jet japan
  522. Assigning One To Many Relationships in CoreData February 24, 2008. objc coredata cocoa
  523. Spring Doesn't Come in February, But Snow Does February 24, 2008. jet japan
  524. On Writing February 19, 2008. thoughts writing
  525. Filtering Arrays in Objective C February 15, 2008. functional objc
  526. Teaching Elementary Classes as an ALT February 14, 2008. jet education japan elementary
  527. My First Sickday in Japan February 13, 2008. jet japan
  528. Midnight Philosophy in The Garden of Good and Evil February 12, 2008. thoughts
  529. Seeking Some Music I Can't Find February 11, 2008. music idm
  530. Some Biased Analysis of Music Videos February 4, 2008. music
  531. Using Our Own Software February 4, 2008. thoughts software
  532. Using Optional Parameters in Django Urls February 4, 2008. django python
  533. Technical Aspects of the Life Flow Editor February 3, 2008. django lifeflow lifeflow-editor
  534. Introducting the LifeFlow Editor February 3, 2008. lifeflow
  535. Why Was The Syllabus Born? January 28, 2008. education
  536. On Hegemony and an Anti-Capitalist Bias in European Textbooks January 26, 2008. education
  537. Hot Water Is Broken January 26, 2008. japan
  538. 5. A Chartered Bus to Downtown Tokyo January 25, 2008.
  539. Standard Workflow for Publishing With LifeFlow January 24, 2008.
  540. Replacing the Karma Social Model with Whuffie January 22, 2008. thoughts
  541. Catching Lessons From Spam January 22, 2008. lifeflow spam
  542. Translating Entries into Other Languages with LifeFlow January 22, 2008. lifeflow translations
  543. A Historical Perspective on the JET Program in 2008 January 22, 2008. jet
  544. On The Causes and Cures of Malware January 21, 2008. os-x microsoft
  545. Failures of Proactive Communication & Other Generic Complaints January 20, 2008. jet
  546. かかった年と新しい年の取り返し January 19, 2008.
  547. 生きて変わる January 19, 2008.
  548. Opinionated Programming Languages, The Huddled Masses, and Elitism January 19, 2008. language-design scheme java community
  549. Lesson Plan: My Winter Vacation January 16, 2008. english jet lesson-plan
  550. New Style for Including Resources in Entries on LifeFlow January 15, 2008. lifeflow
  551. Adding Arbitrary Mods to LifeFlow January 15, 2008. lifeflow
  552. Changes from Living January 13, 2008. thoughts
  553. Introduction to Kamioka-cho, Hida-shi, Gifu-ken, Japan January 10, 2008. jet japan kamioka
  554. Odors from Shoes Curious in OS X 10.4 January 10, 2008. shoes ruby
  555. Driving on the Left Side January 9, 2008. jet japan
  556. Don't Repeat Yourself for Bloggers: Dynamic Blog Context in LifeFlow January 9, 2008. blog lifeflow markdown
  557. Cleanly Extending Python Markdown with Syntax Highlighting January 9, 2008. python markdown
  558. Update to Lethain.com January 7, 2008.
  559. Customizing LifeFlow Quickly with Skins January 7, 2008. lifeflow skinning
  560. Installing a Development Deployment of LifeFlow, a Django Blog Solution January 7, 2008. blog django lifeflow install
  561. Reflections on the old year, and the new one January 6, 2008. jet japan thoughts
  562. BluePrint CSS makes LifeFlow look better, and easier to customize January 6, 2008. lifeflow blueprint
  563. Music Recommendations & Snow Pictures January 5, 2008. japan kamioka winter
  564. Implementing Threaded Comments in LifeFlow January 4, 2008. django lifeflow
  565. Visiting Kiyomizudera January 3, 2008. japan travel
  566. Status Update for LifeFlow January 3, 2008. lifeflow
  567. Accolades for Pygments 0.9 January 3, 2008. python
  568. Actors in Common Lisp January 3, 2008. actors common-lisp
  569. Packaging of Renu Contact Solution January 1, 2008. japan
  570. Miyajima and Hiroshima December 29, 2007. japan travel
  571. Designing My Future Home December 29, 2007. architecture
  572. Another Breakfast With You December 29, 2007. food
  573. Another Slight Mistake... December 27, 2007. blog
  574. Merry Christmas 2007 December 24, 2007. food
  575. Moving Writings to Separate Flow December 24, 2007. blog
  576. Two-Faced Django Part 7: PyFacebook and FBJS Ajax December 17, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django
  577. Upgrading from 256 to 512 megs of ram December 16, 2007. slicehost
  578. Two-Faced Django: Live install December 16, 2007. pyfacebook django dreamhost
  579. Two-Faced-Django Part 6: PyFacebook December 12, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django
  580. Two-Faced Django Part 5: JQuery Ajax December 11, 2007. jquery django
  581. 4. Airplanes December 9, 2007. writing
  582. Two-Faced Django Part 4: The Webapp December 9, 2007. django
  583. Two-Faced Django Part 3: Newforms December 4, 2007. django newforms
  584. Two-Faced Django Part 2: Models and Django Testing December 4, 2007. django testing
  585. Two-Faced Django Part 1: Building a project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web December 4, 2007. pyfacebook django
  586. 3. Shuttle Busses December 2, 2007. writing
  587. On Education, Self-Responsibility and Manure December 2, 2007. education
  588. 2. Traffic Jams December 1, 2007. writing
  589. 1. Beginnings December 1, 2007. writing
  590. 0. Introduction December 1, 2007. writing
  591. Using JQuery with Django for Autocomplete Fields November 30, 2007. jquery django
  592. Using PyFacebook without the Facebook middleware November 30, 2007. facebook pyfacebook django python
  593. Human Error November 24, 2007.
  594. "You Are Beautiful At All Times" by Yppah November 5, 2007. yppah music review
  595. Context is a Parameter in Calculating Truth November 5, 2007. pirsig thoughts
  596. Those Annoying Habits November 5, 2007. jet japan
  597. Defining Your Web Aesthetic October 24, 2007. design
  598. Introducing my Japanese Kitchen October 21, 2007. jet japan
  599. Hiking Tengaisan October 21, 2007. jet hiking japan
  600. Reliable Mealtime Friends October 20, 2007. food japan
  601. Grocery Shopping in Japan October 19, 2007. food japan
  602. Getting Cold in Kamioka October 18, 2007. japan
  603. Teaching Adult English Classes October 18, 2007. english adult education japan
  604. Getting started with Shoes on OS X October 15, 2007. shoes ruby
  605. Expectations and Reality for the lowly ALT October 14, 2007. jet japan
  606. FAQ about JET October 13, 2007. jet
  607. A Few Quick Updates to Site October 12, 2007. blog
  608. Back in Action October 10, 2007.
  609. Eating Cornflakes August 20, 2007. jet japan
  610. Leaving Tokyo, Arriving in Kamioka August 20, 2007. jet japan
  611. From America into an American Bubble: The Flight to Japan August 9, 2007. jet japan
  612. JET Pre-Departure Orientation July 29, 2007. jet japan
  613. Picture from Hotel Room July 29, 2007. japan tokyo
  614. Heading toward Atlanta July 26, 2007. jet japan
  615. Applying to the JET Programme July 19, 2007. jet japan
  616. Failure of Implicit Conventions: Determining Function Destructiveness July 18, 2007. functional language-design
  617. "Building Scalable Web Sites" by Cal Henderson July 17, 2007. review scaling
  618. Dreamier Dream Server with Nginx July 17, 2007. django slicehost ubuntu memcache postgresql apache nginx
  619. Apache/Lighttpd Confusion July 17, 2007. apache lighttpd
  620. Adding Social Bookmarking To a Django App July 14, 2007. django python
  621. Syntax Highlighting with MarkDown, and a pinch of Automagick for Django July 14, 2007. django python
  622. Music Video? Movie? The 'Once' Dilemma July 14, 2007. movie once
  623. Extracting Models From Django Datadump July 13, 2007. django python
  624. Creating my Dream Server for Django July 13, 2007. django lighttpd memcache postgresql slicehost ubuntu
  625. New Look for LifeFlow, Deployment on Dreamhost July 12, 2007. lifeflow
  626. "Puddle City Racing Lights" by Windmill July 12, 2007. music review windmill
  627. YouTube Scalability July 8, 2007. scaling
  628. Stability Issues July 5, 2007. fail
  629. How to Migrate Data Across Model Changes July 1, 2007. django python
  630. Writing Custom Contexts for Django July 1, 2007. django python
  631. Examining Web Analytics to Implement (repost) June 21, 2007. writing
  632. A Django Middleware for Google Analytics (repost) June 14, 2007. django
  633. Anti-Objects and Reflexive Decisions (repost) June 7, 2007. ruby writing
  634. A Comp. Sci Degree is What You Make Of It (repost) June 5, 2007. writing
  635. Is the JVM the "next assembly"? I hope not. (repost) June 4, 2007. writing java
  636. Good to Great, Paul Graham and Ayn Rand (repost) June 1, 2007. writing
  637. Reflections on Django (repost) June 1, 2007. django writing
  638. Finding Our Programming Flow (repost) April 7, 2007. writing