Chris BowdonUnicode Normalization FormsThis is a note-to-self more than anything, because every few months I am doing a little ad-hoc thing and unicode rears its ugly head.May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
Chris BowdonAll the times Kafka Connect has let me downAt Polecat we’ve been using Kafka Connect quite heavily for a year. Several million messages a day into Elasticsearch and S3.Oct 19, 2021Oct 19, 2021
Chris BowdonFree Software advocates always warned us about Twitter and free speechYet another prophecy from Richard Stallman, the charismatic but divisive former leader of the Free Software movement, comes to pass. He…Jan 10, 2021Jan 10, 2021
Chris BowdonBrexit and the lure of rewriting codeIt’s striking how similar the ongoing national embarrassment is to screwing up software.Oct 5, 20191Oct 5, 20191
Chris BowdonCriticisms of GraphQLA few months ago a frontend colleague proposed that we replace our disparate REST or wannabe-REST endpoints with GraphQL. (I assume you’re…Aug 26, 20193Aug 26, 20193
Chris BowdonTo adapt or not to adapt? Software design trade offsRecently this excellent article by a long-time Googler has being doing the rounds:Jan 26, 2019Jan 26, 2019
Chris Bowdon6 months of ClojureI left `$SAFE_ENTERPRISE_ROLE` about six months ago to do Clojure development full time at a “scale-up” company (i.e. a bigger start-up)…Dec 15, 2018Dec 15, 2018
Chris Bowdon10 crazy database migration tricks that actually workIn this post: you won’t believe the 10 weird tricks discovered by this stay-at-office dad. (Not actually 10. Like, 3.)May 31, 2017May 31, 2017
