Programming

• 17 Dec 2020

  Conscious Granularity

  As our skills advance in creating software, we work hard to break problems down into smaller pieces. This helps manage c...
• 30 Nov 2020

  A Fun Puzzle

  Normally I enjoy puzzles in games. Yesterday while playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker, a CRPG, I was presented with a maddeni...
• 10 Nov 2020

  Striving for Simple vs. Easy

  Rich Hickey’s Simple Made Easy is one of the most influential tech talks I’ve watched. This talk is responsi...
• 19 Apr 2016

  Instaparse Powered Slackbot

  Bots are all the rage now. While building a conversational AI bot is a huge undertaking, building your own helpful Slack...
• 14 Sep 2015

  Making Sense of Clojure's Overlooked Agents

  Working extensively with Clojure in the last year, I’ve been exploring the many concurrency techniques favored by ...
• 22 Jun 2015

  Reservoir Sampling in Clojure

  Lately I’ve been moving our data backend to use Apache Kafka to store our many data sources. I think it’s a ...
• 05 Jun 2015

  Make Your Database Disposable!

  Marvin and Stanley work for different companies that do the same thing. Both businesses deliver a stream of relevant con...
• 20 May 2015

  Maximize the Work Not Done

  It’s fuzzy who I first heard say it, but I remember the lesson well. It was a team I was on years ago, and it&rsqu...
• 18 May 2015

  Nested Documents in ElasticSearch

  ElasticSearch is an incredibly powerful tool, going well beyond just full text search. Flat JSON documents can take you ...