Magical “Algorithms” Are Just Irresponsible Feedback Loops

How To Boot Up A Granola Cluster 101

Hi, and welcome to my tutorial for Granola, a distributed application framework for high availability planet-scale big data cloud applications as a service. Granola is the hottest, dankest new framework of 2018 and I hope that this easy tutorial will give devs new…

Valley Notes: S-Dorks

Welcome to Valley Notes, a series where I reflect on real anecdotes from life inside a caricature. Everything recounted…

On Software And “Neuroticism”

I have been told plenty of times that I am in the right career as a software developer. Fanatical about cleverness and elegance, enraptured by well designed machinery and with a strong propensity to tunnel vision it would seem like that analysis is right. And underlying those…

Undefining Genius: How To Beat Impostor Syndrome

Please Leave A Message After My Ride

There’s a thing about white-collar work: you can never go home from it. When I walk to the parking lot, work walks with me, asking “is it possible you could optimize some of your database calls away?” Or when I cook dinner on Sunday evenings, work hands me the salt…

Valley Notes: The Sweetest Idea Ever

Welcome to Valley Notes, a series where I reflect on real anecdotes from life inside a caricature. Everything recounted in these stories actually happened, though names may be altered.