After two years of work, I am finally able to share some big personal news: my wife and I are moving from Denver, Colorado in the United States to Adelaide, South Australia. We will leave the United States on 16 April 2022. That is two weeks from now...
In Feburary 2020, I interviewed was hired at Sophos, a global cyber-security company. Sophos develops products for network security, email security, encryption, mobile securiy, and communications endpoints. The company has 3,500 employees. It is an...
For no particular reason, I’ve updated my site to use dark mode. I’m slightly considering making a JavaScript toggle to let users switch between light mode & dark mode. But, no one reads this. So, haha.
Quick update – I celebrated one year as senior...
Yesterday I started writing my first song in thirteen years.
This guitar is an E-Series 1987 Japanese Fender Stratocaster Squier. I didn’t know most of that until a month ago. At thirteen, I got it from a pawn shop in small Texas town. It was my...
The introduction of iPadOS looked promising enough for me to consider replacing more of the work I do on my Arch on my laptop. I’m not interested in deprecating a laptop that I love, but offloading more simple tasks to other, more mobile, devices appeals...
Oh, snap. Look! I had already refactored this controller quite a lot, but then I did this. So satisfying.
Why
One of the things I see most on job descriptions, brought up in interviews, and thrown around in general programming discussion is Test Driven Development. For the most part, everyone understands how the methology works and how to implement it...
I’ve been learning to fish. I’ve learned this is, in fact, not how it works.
I’ve ditched hosting the new static site on AWS S3. It’s mostly an impatient thing, but I’ve also seen odd metrics between the AWS S3 analytics and Google Analytics.
AWS S3 is insanely reliable, but it also publishes page changes on a cache timer...