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  • Tue, Feb 14, 2023 by vados

    Makefile Tips: help text and preambles

    Some tips for writing better makefiles

  • Wed, Nov 23, 2022 by vados

    Tooling spotlight: direnv

    You should be using direnv to load your ENV variables per folder (project, etc). You can use it to dynamically load files, configure git, and more.

  • Tue, Sep 27, 2022 by vados

    TIL: How to Import or Open .ics Files in the Calendar App (iOS)

    Spent a couple days building an app that no one needs -- learned a valuable lesson in how much I don't know about the Apple ecosystem.

  • Sun, Jul 17, 2022 by vados

    Slonik is Awesome

    Slonik is a Postgres database driver for NodeJS and it's pretty awesome. You should check it out if you haven't already.

  • Mon, Dec 13, 2021 by vados

    Handling your first dead Hetzner hard drive

    Wondering what happens when a hard drive you're using on a Hetzner dedicated server fails? Wonder no longer.

  • Sun, May 16, 2021 by vados

    Setting Up SES With Pulumi

    A step by step guide on how to set up SES with Pulumi

  • Mon, Nov 30, 2020 by vados

    Protect Your Eyes From Strain on Arch

    Use redshift/flux and safeeyes/breaktimer to keep your eyes fresh!

  • Tue, Sep 1, 2020 by vados

    A recipe for running containers in your Tape tests

    A code snippet for running containers from your super simple tape (https://github.com/substack/tape) NodeJS E2E tests

  • Sat, Jun 27, 2020 by vados

    Announcing redis-bootleg-backup (rbb)

    Announcing rbb (redis bootleg backup), a tool for backup up redis clusters with only client access. A tool for otherwise reasonable redis administrators backed into a corner and looking to jackhammer their way out.

  • Sat, Feb 8, 2020 by vados

    Setting Up Mailtrain on K8s

    Running mailtrain on kubernetes

  • Mon, Jul 15, 2019 by vados

    Kubernetes 1.15 upgrade (from 1.13.0)

    I upgraded my tiny cluster from kubernetes v1.13.0 to 1.15.0, and only briefly visited a single pitfall.

  • Sun, Jun 30, 2019 by vados

    A couple talks on Postgres and Gitlab (June 2019)

    A few talks I gave in June 2019 separately on Postgres and GitLab

  • Thu, May 16, 2019 by vados

    What is a Backend? A selective guided tour through terminology, approaches, and technology

    A talk given at a Mercari Dev meetup (https://www.meetup.com/MercariDev/) on April 18th, 2019

  • Sat, Mar 30, 2019 by vados

    Ops Pearl: Managing Git Personas

    Yet another article on the internet about how to reasonably manage multiple git personas

  • Sat, Mar 16, 2019 by vados

    A Quick introduction to manual OpenAPI V3

    A quick rough-and-tumble guide to manually writing OpenAPI v3 schemas (which you shouldn't be doing), with a focus on the NodeJS ecosystem

  • Fri, Jun 8, 2018 by vados

    Using Makefiles And Envsubst As An Alternative To Helm And Ksonnet

  • Tue, Jan 16, 2018 by vados

    Using Both Integrated And Discrete Graphics Cards

    Setting up Arch Linux to use both integrated (on-board, Intel) and discrete GFX (Radeon) cards.

  • Mon, Aug 7, 2017 by vados

    Research Idea: Maintaining A Write Ahead Log For Application Runtime State

    Exploring the stepladder of features that lead to well-engineered backends

  • Sun, Apr 16, 2017 by vados

    Working with PDFs on Arch linux

  • Fri, Jan 6, 2017 by vados

    Using jspm, systemjs, and vuejs together

    Getting JSPM, SystemJS, and Vue.JS to play nicely together

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