Ramblings of a web guy

When we started optimizing our AI pipeline costs, we expected model selection to be the biggest lever.

Over the last year I have started to think of AI as something like a very fast junior developer.

When I set out to build Murmur the goal was not to reinvent social media but to create a community space that feels purposeful and that you control.

Feature flags seem simple at first, but they tend to grow complicated over time.

We had been having an issue with losing cookies in Varnish.

Remix Disc Golf is a brand of disc golf discs that I have only been able to find on Amazon.

Do you plan to go to a DGPT event this year?

Hey y’all.

Recently, on Facebook, I was asked "Who are you to call anyone a racist?".

I have always struggled understanding the use of masks in design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch.

I have not blogged in over a year.

I have found that people tend to use the acronym ASAP incorrectly.

I have always had the utmost respect for Apple.

TL;DR I was having trouble with socket connections timing out reliably.

UPDATE: I should clarify.

I have found myself using UNION in MySQL more and more lately.

When I dropped out of college at 19, I came home to my parents' house.

I like to use a 24 hour clock.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/viernest/3380560365/ About a year ago, I had a wreck.

As I have worked on being a better manager, I have been trying to determine what our strengths and weakness are as a development team.

The concept of unit testing is not new, however it has only gained popularity in the last 10 years or so.

I am a huge sports fan.

I was reading Chris Shiflett's blog and he mentioned a blog post about the web the way it used to be before Facebook and Twitter.

There is plenty to read about continuous delivery in terms of rolling out code.

I have typically blogged on this site about things I have learned in the web application world that may help others.

This is a selfish blog post.

If you use MySQL with InnoDB (most everyone) then you will likely see this error at some point.

The other day Twitter was down and I had no place to comment on Twitter being down.

I normally don't do this.

Update: Matthew Weier O'Phinney, one of the core members of the group, has cleared up the naming history in the comments.