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On the nature of knowledge

A story about the process of becoming an “expert”

Architecting a software system for malleability

The past few years of software development has given…

Simple, beautiful software development

My current thinking when it comes to software development

Droning on with CI/CD

First impressions of the Drone CI tool “drone.io”

For the love of Asciidoctor

A story on Medium about writing documents in Asciidoctor. Ironies abound.

The costs of complexity

A story about maximising developer productivity by maximising “reasonability”…

The magic of TLS, X509 and mutual authentication explained

A story that explains the problems solved…

Handling dynamically created HTML in JavaScript

TL,DR

• Where you can, use events that bubble and attach elements to the document object. You can then filter them on a selector.
• If you have a JavaScript plugin that needs to keep state, store…

Does it make sense to self manage services?

So recently I’ve been having a discussion with various people about whether it makes sense to self manage critical services. This post is to help me think about whether it does (writing helps me think). So, the problem: There are various services that a…