Patrick Dubroy's blog

Don’t question why.

[this is a devlog post — a quick, lightly-edited post about stuff I’m working on right now] I’ll be introducing some breaking changes in the next major version of Ohm and I’d like to make the upgrade path as smooth as possible.

A few times in my career I’ve gotten feedback that really knocked me on my ass.

Since early last year, I’ve been trying to reduce my dependency on the big US tech companies, and US companies in general.

A long time ago, I spent a few years working on garbage collection in the J9 Java VM.1 And even though I’ve since done mostly done higher-level stuff, having a deeper knowledge of GC has continued to come in useful.

I wrote a book!

In 2012 I was working at Google on the Chrome team in Munich.

Early in my career, I was convinced there was “good code” and “bad code”.

In some of the communities I hang around in1, there’s a fondness for the kind of industrial research that happened at places like PARC and Bell Labs.

During my CS undergrad at Carleton University, I had the opportunity to do a bunch of internships.1 Looking back, I can’t help but think how lucky I was!