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Three weeks ago today, a moving truck delivered all my possessions to our new house in Olympia, Washington.

When I was a teenager1 I loved Orson Scott Card’s Enderverse2.

I actually wrote this post almost a month ago.

I spent like an hour last night explaining this in a group chat and I need to justify my husband’s suffering, so I’m going to share my rules of thumb when it comes to pointers in Go.

I feel like the ground is shifting beneath my feet.

Look, when I left my last job I didn’t really know what to expect or have any plans, but I knew what I had to be prepared for.

Now that I’m funemployed and have some time on my hands1 I decided to solve a problem that has been bothering me.

Three years and just under five months ago, I joined LaunchDarkly.

Errors in Go are a contentious topic.

Today we got the email that a judge in Texas has ruled that Lucas is now legally our child.

I can’t quite believe it, but the year’s over.

This post was written on February 19th, 2022.

About 20 years ago (😭), before we had smartphones, when using a computer meant sitting at a desk the entire time, we had these things called “away messages”.

I’m really excited to officially join LaunchDarkly and work on their Internal Tools team on Tuesday, January 4th.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we talk about books.

Getting right to the point, today is my last day at HashiCorp.

For the inaugural HashiTalks: Build, I did a talk about how to design an API that it will be easy to build a Terraform provider for, going into some of the lessons we’ve learned over the years of building Terraform providers.

For the inaugural HashiTalks: Build, I did a talk about Terraform’s type system, explaining the different types and special values and some of their requirements and quirks.

For the inaugural HashiTalks: Build, I did a talk with my team introducing our latest project, terraform-plugin-framework, a new, modernized approach to building Terraform providers.

I’ve been struggling to finish a side project for a while, but I’ve finally actually finished something, so I thought I’d write it up.

Following the release of the terraform-plugin-go and terraform-plugin-mux modules, Katy Moe and I joined Tracy P.

I was fortunate enough to be able to give a lightning talk on the history of Terraform provider development, a subject I find endlessly fascinating, with my coworker Katy Moe at HashiConf Digital 2020.

In the Fall of 2019, I was working on the Google Cloud Platform provider for Terraform and was asked to be the Engineering Lead for HashiCorp for the project.

A talk about how to upgrade your provider to support the v0.12 release of Terraform, which accidentally turned into a history lesson on Terraform and a deep dive into why the 0.12 upgrade process was difficult.

The HashiCorp community team asked if I’d do a lightning talk about the history of HashiCorp’s popular pride stickers, which I’d had a hand in creating in 2017.

This post was originally written for the June 2019 edition of Tumbleweird.

I don’t know if y’all have heard, but Pete Buttigieg (a.k.a.

I wanted to do this on the anniversary of my first post but then car accidents and house-buying stuff happened, and well here we are.

I didn’t write a post for 2018, and I don’t really intend to.

A talk I gave with my friend Dana Hoffman, of Google, about the Magic Modules project, how we were using it with Terraform, the new possibilities it opened up, and a brief history of the GCP provider for Terraform.

Some of you may have noticed links to my site have changed.

I started growing my family in September of 2015.

A year ago, I joined HashiCorp to work on the Terraform team.

I was invited to give a talk on multi-cloud strategies using Terraform and Nomad at HashiDays London.

I dunno how you ended up at this place.

Just before GopherCon, Peter Bourgon was tweeting about contexts and dependency injection.

So Bill Kennedy and Nate Finch bullied peer-pressured talked me into writing about Go.

I think it was my (wonderful) friendboss Ry4an who first used the phrase “impractical zealot” to describe me.

So once again, we’re talking about a Code of Conduct, and once again, people are all up in arms about it.

Once again, I find myself in the position of describing an indescribable conference.

I’ve been trying to get Google Cloud Storage support for WAL-E for years.

We’re going to try something new today.

There was hubbub today over a project maintainer’s conduct on Twitter, and whether he should be allowed to continue to hold a position of authority in the project while marginalising a group of people.

It’s been a little while since I last posted, and I kind of want to get in the habit of posting more.

I tend to be a very unhappy person.

Every few years, it seems, I’ve taken to moving.

I think I’ve grown up.

For over a year now, I’ve been part of EngineYard’s amazing Prompt program.

Today coming out is in the news again, and while I have nothing special to say on that matter (“good for him!”

We’re circling back around in the dev community to talk about reinventing the wheel again.