A software engineer reflects on his startup journey and open-source work before joining Google to focus on developer productivity tools.
Guide to enabling Azure Monitor for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) clusters using CLI and portal.
OpenIddict 1.0 and 2.0 are now officially released, featuring a security fix, built-in entity caching, and an updated event model.
A guide to using ES6 import statements in Node.js with Babel and Express for full-stack development.
Explains how to configure and use the Read Scale-Out feature for Azure SQL Database Premium tier to offload read workloads to secondary replicas.
Fedora Scientific now offers Vagrant boxes, providing a pre-configured environment for scientific computing with KDE desktop and open-source tools.
Introduces the 'namer' R package for automatically labeling unnamed R Markdown chunks to improve debugging and cache management.
A developer explains the importance of effective breaks for maintaining focus and productivity, focusing on recovering different types of energy.
A developer creates a report email from web-scraped data for a SaaS application using Python and Django.
A technical article presenting a contract pattern for encoding and decoding discriminated union types in schemaless data stores, using the TypeShape library.
A critique of PostgreSQL's name change from Postgres to PostgreSQL, arguing it caused persistent pronunciation confusion and was a major mistake.
Explains the security risks of the SQL Server 'Trustworthy' database setting and how it can lead to sysadmin privilege escalation.
Explains high-level container runtimes, their role in image management and orchestration, and compares examples like Docker and containerd.
A technical guide on planning and building a high-performance, future-proof 1GbE/10GbE home LAN using CAT6 cables, including tools and setup steps.
A guide to implementing visual regression testing for React applications using React Storybook and its Storyshots add-on.
Critique of the Commons Clause, arguing it creates nonfree software while dishonestly using open source terminology.
Applying Stephen King's writing advice from 'On Writing' to software development, focusing on reading code and deliberate practice.
A guide on using the {datapasta} R package to quickly create reproducible examples (reprexes) from spreadsheet data or existing R objects.
Guide to building custom data collectors for Azure Log Analytics using C#, including setup and querying.
Analysis of IBM's $34B acquisition of Red Hat, discussing cloud wars, open source culture, and the future of both tech giants.
