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Pointless Ramblings

pointlessramblings.com

The pointless ramblings of Nick Barrett, a (mostly web) hacker.

Software / engineering practiceDevOps / SRE / infrastructurePythonEssays / personal

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45 from 1 Jan 2001 to 14 Sep 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. When Did Our Definition of AGI Become So Piss-Weak?
  2. You Should Really Build a Thing

2025 3

  1. 2025
  2. Adventures with Elasticsearch
  3. Build a Thing

2024 2

  1. 2024
  2. 2024 Refresh

2023 2

  1. Everything is an Abstraction
  2. Do Fewer Things Better

2022 2

  1. Release Anxiety
  2. A Quick Note on Analytics & Ad Blockers

2021 1

  1. 2021

2020 4

  1. Replacing ReadTheDocs with GitHub
  2. Migrating this Blog to Hugo
  3. On the Consolidation of the Web
  4. JavaScript vs Logs

2019 1

  1. Why You Should Try pyinfra

2018 1

  1. Over 10 years of Pointless Ramblings

2017 3

  1. Why Always Electron?
  2. What Mailchimp Considers an Email Address
  3. 2017

2016 2

  1. Agentless Everywhere
  2. Why Always Docker?

2015 5

  1. Luapress v3(.2)
  2. selected.js
  3. Querying 50k Gameservers in 100 lines of Python
  4. El Capitan for Developers
  5. Benchmarking in Virual Machines

2014 4

  1. Switching to Windows Phone
  2. Democracy is a Farce
  3. Learing to Chef
  4. pngquant vs pngcrush vs optipng vs pngnq

2013 8

  1. Work Life Balance
  2. Learning by Working
  3. Introducing mdoc
  4. Starting a Business for $250
  5. My PRISM Fallout
  6. Learning New Things
  7. Lua vs Node vs LuaNginx
  8. Welcome to Pointless Ramblings v2

2001 5

  1. Info
  2. iPhone to Lumia
  3. No Copyright
  4. Ramble
  5. Work