Setup Rants Task Management and My Second Brain I was pairing with an intern the other day. They were a little confused about how some of my Elixir code behaved, so they started asking questions. After some back-and-forth, they hit me
Work-experience Tech-stack How I Added Custom Datadog Metrics using an Unsupported Language. First, let me address the elephant in the room: OpenTelemetry. Yes, I’m aware of the protocol, and my team could have used it. But due to some limiting factors, it wasn’t an option
Whoami Work-experience Persistence Over Perfection, My Journey to Software Engineering If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself, it’s that I rarely do things the “normal” way. While everyone else was busy racking up points in the Accelerated Reading program with the usual
Whoami Work-experience How Bartending Made Me a Better Problem Solver I don’t remember exactly when I caught the coding bug. Maybe it started when I played Skyrim with a mod that was no longer being updated, and decided to fix it myself. Or
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