Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Just off the southern coast of Labrador, there’s a cluster of small islands named Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
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2024
There is no ‘we’ in design docs
Once your software project reaches a certain size, you probably want to have a design document that describes how the system you’re building should behave. P...
2023
dui: like du, but interactive
Sometimes I just want to know why my computer’s disk is full. du will give me a firehose of information, but it’s slow and the results are hard to parse. I d...
2021
Understanding #[derive(Clone)] in Rust
This post assumes that you have an entry-level familiarity with Rust: you’ve fought with the borrow checker enough to start to internalize some of its model;...
How to install the latest nightly Rust that supports rustfmt (or any other component)
tl;dr: rustup toolchain install nightly --allow-downgrade -c rustfmt
Interviewing at Sigma
We’re hiring at Sigma Computing, and we want to make sure that everyone who interviews with us knows what to expect. I wrote up a blog post for the Sigma Com...
2020
Lessons from several years of building a low-code BI tool
BI tools allow people to interact with data without writing code. At some level, this is also the core problem of other low-code or no-code tools like app bu...
Code Names
Naming, as they say, is hard.
What is a Kubernetes ingress, actually?
I recently had to configure a new Kubernetes ingress at work. Before I deployed the ingress into our network, I wanted to understand what it was and what it ...
2019
Blazing-fast jump-to-grep in Emacs using ripgrep
I’ve recently started using ripgrep, a modern grep replacement written in Rust, and it’s fantastic. It’s just so fast. It may not sound like much, but there’...
Recreating the Prolific Oven’s Chocolate Orange Almond Cake
August 31, 2019 was a dark day in the Bay Area: after almost 40 years in business, the Prolific Oven closed down. Growing up, the Prolific Oven had always be...
Using a bare Git repo to get version control for my dotfiles
After having to manually reconfigure all of my dotfiles for the 3rd or 4th time, I decided it was finally time to put them into version control. While I was ...