Jon Simpson - Engineering Modern Systems

GitHub explains a few of their guidelines for harassment and abuse prevention when they’re developing new features.

I had a fun weekend with my roommate hacking on the Shopify API and learning the Ruby on Rails framework.

Over the past several months the Software Engineering Daily podcast has entered my regular listening list.

I’m taking a course that focuses on parallel and distributed computing.

Another grand year has gone by since my last birthday.

Copy and paste is bad.

We have an inconvenient problem.

Podcasts are an excellent source of entertainment and learning new things.

Want to score your dream job and go work for Google, Netflix, Amazon, Github, and the like?

Having an exciting software job at a newly-acquired company is opening up so many possibilities, and making possible the projects that I want to accomplish to make things better.

I was recently working on figuring out how to automate the deployment of a simple docker compose project.

ZDirect, the wonderful company I work for has been acquired by TravelClick, a billion dollar hospitality solutions company.

“Why am I not in the US of A right now?”

Protip: run NTP on all of your servers so that time doesn’t drift back 7 minutes.

Hubot?

What is a ChatOps?

Joking around with my roommate who works in an embedded computing software and hardware company, we started cracking jokes about the day Friday.

Getting distracted from working on school things, I stumble upon GoBiking.ca and remember the promise I made to myself last summer to explore the Ottawa-Gatineau region on my bike.

So I asked my boss a little while ago If I could use him as a work reference.

Whenever programming Java, it’s always a good idea to log what the program is doing.

$ java -version<br></br>#<br></br># A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:<br></br>#<br></br># SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fd0ee055ef8, pid=2336, tid=140535311697664<br></br>#<br></br># JRE version: 6.0_45-b06<br></br># Java VM: J…

The Story Its Saturday night and all I want to do is watch The Amazing Spiderman.

Me: ah, I love the documentation in that script (sarcasm) Coworker: usually the documentation is in history | grep send_specific_dates.sh Me: (Laughing loudly in the office) haha nice

I was going to write a post about looking forward to tonight’s Ottawa WordPress meet-up, but as of today’s events I find that there is a more important topic to blog about.

Goodbye teenage years, hello twenties!

I would like to announce the completion of one of my latest website jobs: A Path To Justice.

During my time converting ZDirect’s SVN repo to Git, we decided to move our code from a server in Florida to a server in Ottawa.

At my workplace ZDirect, we have a decade old SVN repository hosting about twenty projects and totalling about 13 000 commits.

Since syncing music to my Samsung Galaxy S3 doesn’t work with Linux (for the most part), I’ve constructed a method of transferring the music over ssh from my laptop to my phone using a cool little program called Unison.

Well, it looks like the early bird catches the worm.

Here’s one of my recent favourite studying and relaxing mixes that I like to listen to: Dave Harrington – Plays Pretty Just For You.

My Abstract Data Structures Professor’s recommendation on studying for the bonus question on the exam: There will be a bonus question on the exam.

Snapped some nice dawn and dusk photos on my daily commute to school

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet, after all — and [the NSA] simply got copies for itself.

In my systems programming course we learn various techniques of the C programming language.

Skimming over Hacker News: http://devnull-as-a-service.com/ made me laugh a lot.

Past This isn’t the first time I’ve had a personal website.