Karl Tryggvason - Developer Blog

The ETTO principle refers to the fact that people (and organisations) as part of their activities frequently – or always – have to make a trade-off between the resources (primarily time and effort) they spend on preparing to do something and the resources…

The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does.

Doing radio is the thing I miss the most from my djing days.

I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world.

A while back a colleague told me about the --fixup option for git commit and its cousin --autosquash.

When you’re in the throes of an incident that involves an unexpected interaction, this architecture that was built for managing complexity now works against you.

I just added a couple of new features to SQLYac, my sql cli tool.

I switched jobs recently and went from working mostly in a self hosted Gitlab instance to Github.

Recently I’ve been parsing a bunch of open source software release data.

It is a common ritual, grepping through http handlers or spelunking in a project’s Slack when you just want to know how to hit the auth endpoint.

Lately I’ve been trying to build my shell keyboard shortcut skills.

A few years back I did a bit of dance music related data visualization over at Lazily Evaluated.

For the last couple of months I’ve been trying out the Zed editor.

SQLYac is a tool I built to help me manage and structure sql files and run the queries within them.

Mockoon is a great tool for mocking http servers or apis.

If you are slinging JWTs around you’ll often want to inspect the claims contained within to check expiry, user identity or whatever else.