Published in One Medical Technology·Apr 23, 2019Provisioning Engineers with ChirpStrapA story of using Ruby to glue together system tools — “A [person] is only as good as [their] tools.” is, I think, how the saying goes. Perhaps a more appropriate quote for engineering would be “An engineer is only as productive as their tools allow them to be.” For a software engineer, this encompasses the ability to have a productive…DevOps10 min readDevOps10 min read
Published in One Medical Technology·Jul 31, 2018Clearing Async Nests with ember-concurrencyI’m contractually obligated to include a bird reference in the title. — At Iora Health, our mission is to restore humanity to health care. One of the ways we serve our mission is by building a collaborative care platform centered around caring for our patients, rather than using traditional enterprise health systems that are built around administrative tasks like billing and coding…Ember9 min readEmber9 min read
May 30, 2017A New Concurrency PrimitiveNo code is more concurrent than code that does not run and then runs all at once, suddenly. — In these modern times, it seems everyone is catching the concurrency bug. At EmberConf 2017, everyone and their elderly friend from down the street named John was talking about ember-concurrency. There were at least 10 talks that were mostly or only about the add-on wunderkind. Furthermore, articles by the author…Ember3 min readEmber3 min read
May 26, 2017Coffee Is The Reason(s)What are the reasons we get up in the morning? To envelop ourselves in a good book? To take in the company of our beloved, Our family, our friends, our community? Or is it to simply sustain our being by consuming our amphibious young? Keeping the lights on for another day Continuing our…Coffee1 min readCoffee1 min read
Dec 26, 2016Max’s Tips for Very Good Air TravelYou may be traveling without even realizing these ten very important things. — These days, I work for a company where I sit in a chair and do complicated brain things. Occasionally, they tell me to go get on a large metal sky bird, or airplane, to sit and not do brain things until I get to another place, where I promptly return…Travel5 min readTravel5 min read
Jun 25, 2015Life: DerealizedImagine viewing your own life through the lens of television camera. Imagine the movement of your limbs feeling independent of yourself. Imagine your consciousness drifting away from your physical self in a crowded Target. Depersonalization and derealization is a trip. It’s a trip I’ve been on for over 10 years…Mental Health7 min readMental Health7 min read
