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2026 2

  1. bdsh: A dsh-alike for me
  2. D&D (prep) with Claude Code

2025 4

  1. Fun With HTTP Caching
  2. Kong + CUE
  3. Setting up Epithet as of v0.1.7
  4. Epithet, v2, Briefly - Part 1

2024 3

  1. Notes on setting up vm-bhyve
  2. Alfred Alias Hack
  3. Ghostty, emacsclient, and terminfo

2023 5

  1. Epithet, Briefly
  2. SSH Certificate Notes
  3. Using More FreeBSD
  4. Home DNS with Unbound and NSD
  5. 20 Years of Wasting Time!

2017 2

  1. Blog CD Pipeline with AWS CodePipeline
  2. Knock, knock. This thing still on?

2016 1

  1. Using the Real Network with Docker

2014 1

  1. Docker and Mesos, Sitting in a Tree...

2013 5

  1. Leaving Ning, Returning to the Valley
  2. Setting up a Go Development Environment
  3. First Steps with Apache Mahout
  4. Bazooka-Squirrel Solutions
  5. RPC Over SSH and Domain Sockets

2012 12

  1. Some JDBI 3 Noodling
  2. Go is PHP for the Backend
  3. Private Apt Repos in S3
  4. Rethinking Some Galaxy Core Assumptions
  5. What is Galaxy?
  6. Learning to Code
  7. Java URL Handlers
  8. Hello Pummel
  9. Reworking the Atlas CLI
  10. Java Daemonization with posix_spawn(2)
  11. Configuration Models
  12. POSIX from Java

2011 13

  1. Some Atlas Thoughts
  2. In Clauses
  3. Library Versioning
  4. Maybe in Java
  5. Using s3 URLs with Ruby's open-uri
  6. Fundamental Components in a Distributed System
  7. Yet More of the Long Tail Treasure Trove
  8. Making Really Executable Jars
  9. Emacs Client on Mac OS X
  10. jDBI 2.12 and the SQL Object API
  11. Gnuplot
  12. Deployment Systems - Packaging
  13. Deployment Systems - Configuration

2010 4

  1. The TCK Trap
  2. My Favorite Interview Question
  3. Maven GPG Plugin Fixage
  4. Library Dump

2009 13

  1. Bulkheads
  2. Treasure Trove: jmxutils
  3. Emacs 23.1, for the Designers
  4. Embedding Clojure
  5. Setting up TokyoCabinet and Ruby
  6. Borrowing Mark Reid's Styling
  7. Dataflow Programmering
  8. Teh New Ruby Evil
  9. Added Disqus Comments
  10. New Blog Tooling
  11. Switched Over
  12. Using Git to Manage the Blog
  13. Hello Jekyll

2005 1

  1. BrainJam, Dec 3, 2005

2003 1

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