Ten random songs from my collection

This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30...

“Victory belongs to the most Tenacious” — a phrase that echoes across the clay courts of Paris each spring. Originally attributed to Napoleon and later adopted by aviation hero Roland Garros, this quote now adorns the stadium walls of...

Sometimes the defaults your web browser gives you aren't very cute. Here's a lil snippet I use to fix that.

Some time ago I wrote about config-driven import which became available in Terraform 1.5. Import blocks are a way to import existing resources into the statefile, which is useful when you have a bunch of infrastructure that was created...

A philosophy that you should always maintain when developing is to Write The Fricken Manual. Many times over the years, i’ve heard the advice to “RTFM”. But the documentation wasn’t great. And no one was writing it. This sounds...