The Actor Pattern
An engineer mentioned the "Actor pattern" in a distributed systems conversation. It doesn't exist — but the Actor pattern does, and Go's goroutines are basically a live demo of it.
Merge Anxiety
Technical writing on software, systems, and craft
Revisiting JavaScript
In which javascript is re-examined because it's weirder than I thought.
Python Cheatsheet
Because everyone needs a cheatsheet sometimes.
Kotlin Comparable
Defining order in Kotlin using comparators
Dijkstra's Two-Stack Algorithm
Dijkstra was pretty good at his job and I want to be, too.
Group By
Building up the toolkit -- group by is crazy useful.
Unit Testing
Unit testing continues to be a useful investment and a complete, mysterious pain.
Mise En Place
As it turns out, learning to consistently focus is actually one of the more difficult skills to acquire.
Hello World
Small beginnings, rewriting history and making the case for messy code (sometimes).