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Pride, ethical debt, and an e-card side project
It seems like I blinked and June has flown by! I'm now back home in Toronto and trying not to melt in the heat waves that seem to be happening more frequently in Ontario. One of the highlights of the past month for me was getting the opportunity
June 3, 2024 - Assorted reads
Hello from Winnipeg! It's nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of Toronto from time to time and even nicer to spend time with family that I haven't seen in a long while. I've also gotten the opportunity to catch up on
Blogging for community vs blogging for showing competency
When I started blogging a number of years ago, it was a way to not only share lessons that I learned in my day-to-day work with others but to also serve as an archive for things that I've run into and how to solve them should I run
How to change the version of an npm package associated with a specific tag
If publishing experimental npm packages is a somewhat regular part of your development workflow, you've likely experienced some nerves around publishing that package incorrectly such that it becomes the version that anyone newly installing or upgrading the package gets. If you find that you accidentally did exactly this
Lessons from the first issue of The 418
It's been about a month since Christina and I published our first issue of The 418 zine (check it out here if you haven't already!) and now that I've had a little bit of time to sit and reflect on how things went, I
Soccer as a metaphor for software development teams
I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of software engineering teams as mini soccer (or 'football' for my readers outside of Canada and the US) teams given some of the dynamics that exist within engineering teams are the same ones that you
How to search and filter issues and pull requests in Github by author
If you ever find yourself needing to find issues or pull requests created by someone (or a few someones) in Github, here are a few quick tips for how to do that. First up - when you're looking for an individual, you'll want to use the
Building my first Rust project
When I first joined Netlify, I worked on the Frameworks team which focuses on ensuring that all major web frameworks run out-of-the-box when deployed to the platform. As part of our testing strategy at the time, we would make legitimate requests from test applications to test rewrite and redirect behaviour.
Is the proliferation of edge data centres counterproductive towards the goal of more sustainable software?
Proponents of edge computing (myself included) have argued that the edge can help us create more environmentally friendly software. While removing the use of a data centre for some operations by running them locally rather than on a remote server is a clear step in the right direction, what'
Tips for maintaining peak health before conference speaking
Being a speaker is intense energy- and time-wise and we can sometimes forget to take care of ourselves as a result. While there are a lot of guides and posts out there for things like navigating the 'call for proposals' process, making great slide decks, and speaking with
