Things pertaining to programming/computer science.
I’ve been using AI agents to assist with software development for at least two years now. GitHub Copilot was kind of where my journey began, but I’ve tried many over the last couple of years. They began with “oh, thank you, you caught a semicolon I missed” and that was about all they were worth. […]
It’s been a hot minute since I last made a post here. In many ways, life has changed a fair bit for me, but in some other ways, it’s not really all that different. While having a tough time sleeping the other night, I went and looked back at some of my old blog posts […]
I recently purchased a new mechanical keyboard. My usual functions are gaming (maybe 15% of my time on a computer) and programming. While I’m certainly not a hard core gamer, I do enjoy the competition and want the correct gear in order to ensure that I can compete at an average (or above) level. But since my […]
For Christmas, I got a USB Big Red Button. I honestly have not even looked at what it is supposed to do as it comes from the manufacturer (mostly because they only officially support Windows and I only run Linux). I am, however, inspired by the simplicity and tactile interface of the Big Red Button. I’ve read […]
On the Dreamhost cloud team, we’ve been busy. First off, we really make a big effort to participate in the open source communities. This requires time and energy on our part, but I think that giving back to the communities we rely on to do our business is good publicity and makes the products we rely […]
This article is personally funny to me on a deeper level, as I actually think minivans make a lot of sense and was trying to convince the wife that we should get one instead of an SUV. Also, comparing javascript to a lifted golf cart is so spot on (with node.js making headway, these days). I would love to […]
Found some time to work on pimometer this weekend. Made some decent progress. Our original goal included leveraging a custom built django API, but upon further examining of our needs, we decided the MongoDB API was really all we needed. We now have a working WebUI (though it is a bit minimal at the moment), […]
TL;DR: I like python (mostly because I’m fairly proficient with it) but have a lot of respect for ruby. However, the two languages are actually really similar at lower levels. This might be a less typical “vs” article. Really, I don’t enjoy language wars. I believe that each language is a tool that solves particular problems well. […]
Since I have noticed an uptick in interest in my puppet-git-hooks, I thought I should dedicate some time to explaining myself (also, this is the first time anyone has ever written a book about anything that I’ve done). The Goal The highest level goal for these git hooks is to provide a programmatic mechanism for validating puppet […]
The Birth of pimometer I don’t have too much to report on this yet, but I’ve been working on a Raspberry Pi project to monitor the status of a long BBQ or smoke out. It’s under the current working title of pimometer. Various design points are still being talked through, but I think we have the […]