Tue 16 September 2025 • misc

Before the first ticket prints, a good cook in a professional culinary kitchen knows exactly where everything is. This isn’t by accident. To describe the order and organization of their kitchen, the French use the phrase mise en place, meaning “to put in place” or, more colloquially accepted,...

Mon 16 October 2023 • misc

You’ve started a new project and you’re feeling excited. The code is well-factored, it does the minimum viable thing. You’ve shipped 0.1. Maybe you’ve even released a few different features to production.

Inevitably, a feature request comes in that requires some work that’s unrelated to your core product. Maybe it’s a one-off integration with a third party service or a function that you’ll call in a...

Mon 06 March 2023 • misc

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

No blog would be replete without an occasional check-in for the working environment. In the last few months, I've painstakingly re-worked my daily computering setup with an eye...