PinnedAlmenonKeeping yourself motivated as a coderProgrammers probably have one of the most distracting jobs in existence. Their entire workday is spent in front of a computer — a literally…Sep 23, 2018Sep 23, 2018
AlmenonWhat is enterprise-grade IaC?In my current project I am a DevOps-DevOps Engineer, or DevOps² for short. This means I work on accelerating the rest of the DevOps team…Jan 14Jan 14
AlmenonHow to walk Datadog without running out of moneySo you’re interested in adding a APM, logging, or monitoring tool to your tech stack. Maybe you’re tired of maintaining Elasticsearch…Dec 14, 20231Dec 14, 20231
AlmenonLearn Unicode in y MinutesThis post gives an overview of Unicode, along with a do-it-yourself example, practical tips, and illustrations. Let’s dive in!Dec 12, 2023Dec 12, 2023
AlmenonTableau on Kubernetes: How not to design a Kubernetes offeringTableau announced that you can run their server on Kubernetes back in 2021. Now that it’s been a few years, let’s take a look and see how…Feb 4, 20232Feb 4, 20232
AlmenonUbuntu on Windows for Masochists on WindowsFor the past couple years I have worked entirely in the microsoft stack. Typescript. C#. VB. MSSQL. IIS. Azure. and the list goes on…Mar 10, 2019Mar 10, 2019
AlmenonThe shape of the codeCode has a shape. For a small script, it might be a simple arrow. Stuff goes in, stuff goes out. A large script might be a mess of…Nov 3, 20181Nov 3, 20181
AlmenonConverting python-shell to typescriptWhen I became a maintainer of python-shell I inherited an out-of-date codebase. Requires, vars, callbacks — all relics of a bygone era…Aug 15, 2018Aug 15, 2018
AlmenonSetting up email alerts for your vscode extension using AzureOne of the things I loved about making my reddit_episode_bot was that I get emails whenever it comments. Each email i get is a little…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018