I’ve been sharecropping on Amazon’s server farms since I moved to the Bay Area 5 years ago. That is, every startup I’ve worked for has utilized AWS (and sometimes GCP or Azure in addition). This started out great for my career because I have not built a server machine from parts out since I was in college and I...

I should probably start blogging again.

I gave a short (~10) minute talk on preparing to move to microservices at the Python meetup in San Francisco. The main points: We all start out with a monolith The monolith never fully goes away That’s fine Scope out a new project to make your first microservice Pull out a relatively isolated piece of code in the...

I wrote a handful of different things on my paternity leave, but one of the more interesting ones was this small TIC-80 game where you play a bear. <a href="https://jasonbot.itch.io/jumpbear">Play Jumpbear: The Global Warming Bear on itch.io</a>

This is a recycled post from my tumblr weblog Ha ha ha just lying the real title should be Turning a Piece of Shit Chromebook into a Good Enough Development Machine Because You’re Unemployed and Feel Like An Ass Trying to Justify Spending $2000 on a God Damned Macbook so You Wound Up Buying a Chromebook Instead...

This is a recycled post from my tumblr weblog. I’ve since had three other jobs, but a lot of what I like still rings true 5 years later in 2020. Please note I am contractually prohibited from saying what I don’t like about most of my prior employers so don’t expect any negative posts. I’ve gone from developer at a...

I have a stupid json-only REST API I implemented in bottle.py. This introspects the default app, gives a dumb readout that should act as an adequate reference for discovery: @bottle.route('/') def index(): bottle.response.content_type = 'text/plain' return ("=== API REFERENCE ===\n" + "\n".join(x['rule'] for x in...

For as much shit as I like to talk about C++, I sure can get a lot done quite efficiently in it. I read an interview with Bjarne a while back and he said C++’s most important feature was destructors. After thinking about it, yeah, they are pretty awesome and I’ve been using the with statement for the same tightly...

I have two desktop systems, side-by-side: an Intel Mac Mini and an Intel 21" iMac. The Mini runs Leopard and the iMac runs Ubuntu Karmic Koala, and I find myself completely satisfied with the Linux desktop, and switch back to OSX as an auxiliary rather than as my primary. I started on Debian back in 1999. I wanted...

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This is a small toy for figuring out what to do with a set of letters. Use _ as a wildcard. const rootWordNode =...

I am Jason Scheirer, a completely unremarkable software developer in the Bay Area initially from the Inland Empire. A rough timeline of my life as a software engineer: Start programming BASIC in elementary school, escalating to pirated QuickBasic and Turbo Pascal, as well as legal but squirrely DJGPP/RHIDE/Allegro...