What is the Ruby Legacy?
The world is changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. —Galadriel
The Well in the Field
When I was a child, I lived with my parents in the woods. We had an old-fashioned hand-dug well, the kind from storybooks that looks like a big hole in…
SIGAVDI #82: Broccoli Rabe Edition
What’s good, what’s new, and some thoughts on why good organizations can still have bad hiring practices.
Reproducibly Setting Production Environment Variables for AWS Lambda Apps
The problem with infinitely flexible building blocks is that there are always a half-dozen well-documented ways to do things wrong. I wanted my AWS Lambda app (I refuse to call…
AWS SAM in a Docker Dev Container
In which I get an AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) hello-world app up and running in a reproducible Docker dev container (with code on Github)!
Edsger Dijkstra and the TSA school of software correctness
A point of view focused on prevention, and on categories of error we already understand, will necessarily shortchange the tools and methods for approaching brand new new surprises as they happen.
SIGAVDI #81: Mustard Greens Edition
Hello friends, It’s been a weird week for all of us, I think. I don’t have a lot more to say about that, so I’m just going to proceed forward…
Eric & Avdi Talk About the Developer Education Business
Eric Normand (of LispCast and PurelyFunctional.tv) and I have been trading notes about the developer education business for years. The other day we caught up and talked about business models,…
The Cache Flush: 008 Reconstituted sophisticated opinions
Thoughts on strong opinions and terms for complexity; some booknotes from Reactive Design Patterns and Domain-Driven Design; notes from Jessica Kerr.
A Tool for Choosing a Tech Stack
OK so I understand you think teams should stick to the tech stack they have the most familiarity with. Yes, under most circumstances. Riddle me this though: I have a…