The Human Effort

Foundational Paradoxes

Science has a fascinating cycle, where an idea goes from being unthinkable, to being thought by one person (or by a few independent people), to being the prevailing wisdom of most scientists, to being embedded in the intuition of most people. Different scientific ideas are at different…

I am getting a little tired of Javascript Strawmen…

Every library choice has pros and cons. jQuery has pros: well-understood by almost everyone, easy to get started with. jQuery has cons: building a really large or complicated application with jQuery alone gets pretty bad in a whole bunch of ways. Every library has pros and…

Blazing Docker Deploys with this one neat trick!

Docker is a pretty amazing technology, solving a number of headaches in a really reliable way. However, it does have one common problem:

Docker can be really slow

Getting Docker, Node and NPM to play nice

Docker is an incredible tool for managing both production workflows as well as development workflows. Unfortunately, the most common pattern for doing development work using docker (mapping your source code folder as a volume), wreaks havoc on Node.