code snippets

Dealing with circular dependencies

Mar 18, 2024 •

Ruby ERB templating and AST magic

Validating invalid dynamic erb blocks

Feb 5, 2024 •

Consistent Hashing

Suppose we want to provide a percentage based rollout of features to a set of users without storing the full set of features for each user.

Sep 21, 2021 •

JIRA CLI Tooling

I love tooling.

Aug 13, 2019 •

Typed react native router

Note, a seasoned UI friend of mine told me this is a terrible way to do things and to instead use hooks instead

Aug 6, 2019 •

Infra graphs with neo4j

I spent some time recently mucking around with neo4j attempting to model infrastructure, incidents, teams, users, etc.

Apr 27, 2019 •

Chaos monkey for docker

I work at a mostly AWS shop, and while we still have services on raw EC2, nearly all of our new development is on Amazon ECS in docker.

Feb 17, 2018 •

Sbt sonatypeRelease on Travis

I figured I’d drop a quick note here for anyone else running into an issue.

Nov 17, 2017 •

Coproducts and polymorphic functions for safety

I was recently exploring shapeless and a coworker turned me onto the interesting features of coproducts and how they can be used with polymorphic…

Oct 16, 2016 •

Mocking nested objects with mockito

Yes, I know its a code smell.

Sep 22, 2016 •

Unit testing DNS failovers

Something that’s come up a few times in my career is the difficulty of validating if and when your code can handle actual DNS changes.

Jun 3, 2016 •

A simple templating engine

I wanted to talk about templating, since templating is a common thing you run into.

Mar 10, 2014 •

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