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The home page of Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, co-founder of Gruntwork, author of "Hello, Startup" and "Terraform: Up & Running", and software engineer at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial.

Software / engineering practiceFunctional / PL theoryWeb development

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102 from 31 Oct 2007 to 11 Feb 2015
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quiet since 2015
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2015 2

  1. Hello, Startup
  2. Are static typing and functional programming winning?

2014 12

  1. Node.js vs Play Framework
  2. The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads - and that's ok.
  3. The Saga Of The Stank
  4. Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer
  5. Don't learn to code. Learn to think.
  6. You are what you document
  7. Got fast download but slow upload speeds? Here's a fix.
  8. Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding
  9. So long, and thanks for all the t-shirts
  10. The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework
  11. Maxing out at 50 concurrent connections with Play or Netty on OS X? Here's a fix.
  12. A thousand lives

2013 7

  1. Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io
  2. The 10x developer is NOT a myth
  3. 10 recipes for turning imperative Java code into functional Scala code
  4. Shit recruiters say
  5. Some ground rules for debate
  6. What my grandfather taught me about happiness
  7. MySQL error: last packet sent to the server was XXX ms ago

2012 16

  1. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang, Day 2
  2. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang, Day 1
  3. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 3
  4. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 2
  5. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 1
  6. Got slow download but fast upload speeds over wireless? Here's a fix.
  7. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Prolog, Day 3
  8. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Prolog, Day 2
  9. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Prolog, Day 1
  10. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Io, Day 3
  11. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Io, Day 2
  12. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Io, Day 1
  13. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Ruby, Day 3
  14. Sherlock, The Reichenbach Fall: What Really Happened?
  15. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Ruby, Day 2
  16. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Ruby, Day 1

2011 39

  1. Siri: a glimpse of the future
  2. I survived the 30 day blog fitness challenge
  3. Light reading for heavy lifting
  4. Some food for thought
  5. Ikea furniture: some assembly required
  6. Worth watching: why are we happy?
  7. In case you missed it: the epic 2011 Crossfit Games
  8. Up all night: the LinkedIn Intern Hackday, Day 2
  9. Up all night: the LinkedIn Intern Hackday, Day 1
  10. Worth watching: pale blue dot
  11. Up in the mountains
  12. Down in the Salt Mines
  13. Proposal: extend Markdown syntax to support form elements
  14. Apartment hunting tips and tricks
  15. 5 reasons everyone should watch the Crossfit Games
  16. Obsessed with lists: how I organize my life
  17. The hardest workouts of all time
  18. 3 more web development tools you've probably never heard of
  19. Travel quirks, part 3: sculpture, animals, doppelgängers, art and more!
  20. Travel quirks, part 2: gastronomic adventures
  21. Travel quirks, part 1: signs, billboards and writings
  22. TaxPayers choose
  23. 3 web development tools you've probably never heard of
  24. About those shoes...
  25. 5 things that suck about Europe
  26. Taking the Khan Academy to the next level
  27. Obsessed with the apocalypse
  28. Why I don't want to stay in shape
  29. Programming lessons I wish I knew when I graduated, part 2
  30. Programming lessons I wish I knew when I graduated, part 1
  31. The 30 day blog fitness challenge
  32. This is where I work. Remix.
  33. Your job posting sucks.
  34. Why game mechanics won't save your crappy product
  35. A physical analogy for the creative thought process
  36. I finally understand open source software
  37. This is where I work
  38. Java's String.split()
  39. 2011 Goals

2010 8

  1. Flatland and my adventures in Stanford's libraries
  2. My hackday project is live: The Resume Builder
  3. 2010 Crossfit Games: Northern California Qualifier, Day 2
  4. 2010 Crossfit Games: Northern California Qualifier, Day 1
  5. Title goes here
  6. My life goals
  7. My 2010 Crossfit Goals
  8. A look back at 2009

2009 2

  1. Crossfit Strength/Power Hybrid
  2. My 2009 Goals

2008 10

  1. How I lost 43lbs
  2. A Tribute to Crossfit
  3. Another "Gotcha", this time in HTML
  4. A Subtle Java 1.5 "Gotcha"
  5. iPhone 3G
  6. Eten Glofiish M800 Review
  7. Why I probably won't be buying a mac any time soon...
  8. Weight lifting
  9. Working on a Mac
  10. New job

2007 6

  1. So I got a new toy...
  2. The search for a monitor
  3. Gears of War Review
  4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review
  5. I Hate CSS
  6. The search for the perfect PDA phone