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Jan ’21

  • Wait, did Kubernetes just reduce complexity?

    In February, my Google Cloud free credits will expire, so yesterday I decided to migrate many of my Politiwatch projects to Microsoft Azure (where I have recurring free credits).

Aug ’20

  • Shynet had a security issue because I misunderstood CORS

    When I built Shynet, my self-hosted analytics tool, one of my top priorities was making sure it didn’t require visitors to have JavaScript enabled.

Jul ’20

  • I thought it’d be a good idea to establish scopes at parse time

    Over the past week or so, I’ve been working on building my own simple interpreted programming language.

Jan ’13

  • Open source development — Public creation

    Most of the software I write is open source, and some people have found this software helpful: collectively, my repositories have over 1,000 “stars” on GitHub.

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