Rose-Colored Glasses: A Confession.

(Trigger warning: If abuse, sexual assault, or anorexia makes you uncomfortable, you might want to avoid this one.)

Over the years, I’ve attempted to write this, quite literally, 17 times. I’ve spoken to friends, therapists, lawyers…

Honestly I can’t stand k8s. It’s a simplified clone of Google’s internal borg system, but the learning curve is still just gross. It forces you to learn all these concepts that you shouldn’t need to worry about up front. Compared to something like Amazon Fargate or HashiCorp Nomad, k8s’s design is overcomplicated and (at least last I checked) not as…

ElixirLS 0.2: Better builds, code formatter, and incremental Dialyzer

Some months ago, I released ElixirLS, an IDE “smartness” server for Elixir that powers a VS Code plugin. Now that Elixir 1.6 is looking fairly close to release, I figured it was time to update ElixirLS with…

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.

How I built a replacement for Heroku and cut my platform costs by 4X

May the next Etsy learn its lessons

Venture capital taught Etsy that making money wasn’t a skill it needed to learn early on. Go on…

Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data

Women pioneered computer programming. Then men took their industry over.

How “computer girls” gave way…

The deal Jeff Bezos got on Basecamp

In 2006, Jeff Bezos bought a minority, no-control stake of Basecamp from Jason and me. We didn’t…

Beyond 10,000 Lines

Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project