Katas, Microservices, and Reactive Streams: a Buzzword Oasis — In 2015 O’Reilly started their Software Architecture Conference. Five years later, I attended the 2020 O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York City. What follows is a summary of the two day training, a summary of my favorite talks, and miscellaneous thoughts. …

I wanted to use Drone.io to run tests for an app that uses pipenv for dependency management. Turns out it wasn’t as simple as I thought. The problem isn’t specific to Drone but more of a challenge with Docker and pipenv. …

Last month OnePlus unveiled a promotion for their then-upcoming OnePlus 6T. The premise was simple: tap or click the screen to unlock mystery prizes. The more you clicked, the better the prize would be. After clicking to the first prize, just 60 clicks, I decided try automating the process. If…

On the first day of my internship at BuzzFeed last summer I was added to their GitHub organization. Along with read access to several repos, I was also automatically subscribed to watch each repo. In the first few hours I received hundreds of email notifications for PRs, comments, issues, and…

By Raymond Berger and Clifford Lezark This summer hackNY expanded its commitment to the Summer of Good initiative by organizing several social good projects for fellows to contribute to outside of their internships. The goal of this initiative is to support nonprofit companies who have technologically-ambitious missions but lack the…