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Comments Run software only as long as it needs The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission happened recently and successfully crashed.

Comments The longest day of my life I flew from Bangkok to Los Angeles last week.

Comments Experience !

Comments The importance of community Two weeks ago my dad passed out and was brought to the hospital.

Comments Culture “The emotional intelligence of management is what makes a company culture miserable or excellent.”

Comments Cloud Computing The phrase “the network is the computer” was coined in the 80s at Sun Microsystems to describe that you could use computing resources from other systems to enhance your local needs.

I hosted a Twitter space to discuss the differences between devops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Comments No code walls I’ve been prototyping a mobile app with no code solutions.

Comments Design fossils When you start a new job or contribute to an existing code base you often have to dig to find where to make changes.

Comments Complements When someone gives you a complement to your face, or via chat, or even in pull requests it feels good.

Comments Forming your experience Sometimes we get stretched in multiple directions at once.

Comments Stories I gave an internal talk at work last week about storytelling.

Comments Focus Our vision can be clouded by too many things.

Comments Igniting the flame Humans need to rest.

[caption align=“alignnone” width=“980”] [/caption] Comments Shipping products Shipping products has been very different throughout my career.

It took a few months to plan and about three weeks to build my latest Kubernetes hardware lab.

Comments Gatekeeping People take a path to learn and achieve things.

Comments Are you the balloon?

Comments Measuring We often measure things in development environments to understand things like how much traffic our application can accept or how many resources it’ll use.

Comments Boundaries I’ve known people who work 60+ hours a week for as long as I’ve been in tech.

Infrastructure has changed a lot, but the mantra of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been the goal for organizations for far too long.

Comments From memory My dad loves puzzles.

Comments Garbage collection It’s weird to think that our brains do garbage collection while we sleep.

Comments In person I spent this week with 7,500 other people in a country I’ve never traveled to.

Comments Scripting I think about tools a lot.

Comments Learning Learning is a process of identifying similarities between something we know and something don’t (the thing we are learning).

Comments Site Reliability Engineering I was an SRE in a previous role and bought into the idea of SRE.

Comments Figuring it out It’s so nice when you figure something out.

Comments YOLO/CD Continuous delivery is built on trust.

Comments Statistics Facts don’t convince people.

Comments Working smarter I was sanding some wood and it was taking me a long time to get off a layer of paint even with rough sandpaper.

Comments Troubleshooting I spent most of my week trying to figure out problems with new systems with minimal feedback.

Comments Taking space I’m taking up this comment to dedicate it to my friends and strangers in Ukraine fighting for their freedoms and in some cases fleeing for their safety.

Comments Priorities This newsletter is not important.

Comments Newsletter I wasn’t going to write an issue this week because I’m a bit overwhelmed by what’s happening in the world and it didn’t feel right to try to teach people tech when people are at war.

Comments Refactoring Make it work Make it beautiful Make it fast This is a common saying for software developers.

Comments Knowing how to debug Writing code isn’t too hard.

Comments Ideas In 1920, 14 year old Philo Farnsworth was plowing a potato field in Idaho.

Comments Movement If you look at images you can see art.

Comments Earned trust In any job you have to have trust.

I’ve been using Revue for my 123dev newsletter and wanted an easier way to save URLs to include in future emails.

Comments Loops Inner loops and flow are such powerful things for developers.

Comments Static force When I was a Sophomore in college I signed up for an upper division physics course called Statics.

Comments The illusion You’re free to do whatever you want.

Comments Start fresh At the end of every year I read or delete my pocket queue.

I have been running 123dev newsletter for a full year. 52 weeks in a row.

Comments The future of the web Many people believe the future of the internet is web3.

Comments Crumple zones Older cars were built strong with lots of metal and reinforced welds.

Comments Problems Isn’t it great when a problem fixes itself?

Comments Logic How people think has been on the mind of philosophers for ages.