Around this time last year I saw a tweet from @anildash
The absolute best thing I've done for the past few years is keeping a simple list of personal victories (small or large) for each year.
— Anil Dash (@anildash)
3 Jan 2015
The idea being, it's easy to remember the failures throughout the year and let the good things slip by.
JVM Garbage Collection wasn't something I'd ever had to worry about. Until recently. GC is a target of many jokes but in my experience it had always worked "good enough". That is, I'd never had the need for a large heap and high throughput.
That changed when ...
It's been a while since I moved my blog to Pelican + Github + Travis + S3. At the risk of only blogging about how I build this blog, I thought I'd do a follow up post to Continuos Blogging.
I'm going to give a lighting talk at the Auckland Continuous Delivery meetup on how I build the blog and there were a few improvements I wanted to get done before the talk. Here's what I did to improve the site's performance.
A problem that I have recently started to become aware of is sexism in the tech industry. It was quite a rude awakening, I no longer existed in a naive bubble where merit was rewarded above all else. There is no doubt the problem exists. The solution isn't out ...