On Suffering
5/22/2022
Blog
If a blog is made and no one reads it, does it generate any page views? Spiders.
An Iterative Approach to Writing
8/2/2021
The waterboarding of the ego. The crushing of the soul. The realization that I can't spell. What I mean when I talk about writing.
Dendron - Super Fast Open Source Note-Taking inside VSCode
3/16/2021
Building a better tool for thought
Avenging Software Development
3/2/2021
A Hierarchical Tool for Thought
10/25/2020
What I mean when I talk about Hierarchy
A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking
8/24/2020
Taking note of everything that you care about
Peonies
8/9/2020
Running Shoes
8/9/2020
Salsa
8/9/2020
Fuzz
8/9/2020
Hospital
8/9/2020
Walking with Friends
8/9/2020
Home
8/9/2020
Homeless
8/9/2020
WHO
8/9/2020
Grateful
8/9/2020
It's Okay
8/9/2020
Learning
8/9/2020
Dog Trailer
8/9/2020
Mom
8/9/2020
2020-06-21 Weekly Review
6/21/2020
Opinions and Facts, Power and Accountability, Wonder and Awe
2020-06-07 Weekly Review
6/7/2020
George Floyd, Antifragile Democracy, and Chekhov's Gun
2020-05-31 Weekly Review
5/31/2020
Nature vs Nurture, The Sum of Parts, and Character in Crisis
2020-05-24: Weekly Review
5/24/2020
Cognitive Technology, Economics of Open Source, and the State of Podcasting
2020-05-17: Weekly Review
5/17/2020
Second-system effect, Tools of Thought, Twitter Lists
2020-05-10: Weekly Review
5/10/2020
Structured Knowledge Management, Retrospectives and Using (aw)less
2020-05-03: Weekly Review
5/3/2020
Highlights of things I've been thinking and working on over the week
It's Not You - It's Your Knowledge Base
3/30/2020
Thoughts on organizing and finding information in a digital age
Everything I Learned from One Year of AWS Consulting
1/6/2020
Thoughts and learnings from 1 year as an AWS consultant
AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap
12/12/2019
Everything you need to know about re:Invent 2019
The Open CDK Guide
8/8/2019
Publishing an open source CDK guide with an opionated set of tips and best practices for working with the CDK
A Tale of Two Buckets
7/17/2019
The story of a bad multi-account deployment and the ensuing investigation to find the truth. A tale of intrigue, identity and access.
CDK All The Things: A Whirlwind Tour
6/12/2019
Ever wanted to provision AWS infrastructure with the expressivity of python, the type safety of java and the declarative nuance of CloudFormation?
No Reservations: A Definite Guide to EC2 Reserved Instances
3/11/2019
EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) are probably the most effective way of reducing your AWS bill by as much as 75% but are underutilized because of perceived complexity and lock in. We explore what RIs are all about and what you want to consider when purchasing RIs.
Building Scalable Serverless Applications on AWS
2/28/2019
Slides to my talk on serverless, answering age old questions such as: Serverless, what is it? Why Care? How do you scale it?
My Podcasting Setup
2/25/2019
My setup and process for podcasting
Benchmarking Lambda's Idle Timeout Before A Cold Start
2/4/2019
An investigation of how long a Lambda can idle before a cold start. Benchmarks includes Lambdas from 128MB all the way up to 3008MB across multiple regions.
Giving Third Parties Limited Access to your AWS Account
1/18/2019
An exploration of various AWS managed read-only IAM policies. Understand what they do and how to apply them to your account the next time you have a third party access your AWS account.
Luck and Chance
5/13/2018
Why I Write
3/10/2018
Abstractions - Part1
6/20/2017
Peloton
5/31/2017
Reflections on Asia
1/13/2017
Some Thoughts on VR
8/31/2016
Why I Choose Vim
9/25/2015
Sunk Costs
1/22/2015
Do you remember?
8/3/2014
Personal (Cloud) Computing
6/29/2014
Of Growing Up
5/17/2014
How are you?
1/19/2014
Noticing the trees among the forest
12/10/2013
I have a plan
9/3/2013
Uno
8/26/2013