You are overrun by them. An infestation of a grotesque mouse-octopus chimera. Little black oily vermin; naked tails and little furry rumps that coalesce into a mass of writhing black tentacles. Traps can’t hold them. And as they swarm, you try to stomp them out. Black ichor runs from their wounds. But, once cut in […]
Homebrew number fifteen, and the third evolution on what’s becoming my signature beer, Honestatis.
The venerable Rebecca Murphey on HTTP/2. The rise of HTTP/2 and what it means for building and deploying web applications (both on the front- and the back-end) is something that I’ve been curious about and following for the past couple years. As expected, Murphey’s take on the subject is thoughtful and thorough, with particular attention paid to what it means for “real world” developers. Something that she discusses in this piece which was not something I’d previously thought about was: whither the tooling for HTTP/2 applications? Her examination of the trade-offs and the “reality check” for the present day (and near-future) are also well worth the time.
You are sitting in a treehouse, trying to plan a trip, the two of you. You believed that you had narrowed down the destination and all you had left was to book it. But things got complicated. New suggestions came in. People kept appearing with new ideas. You couldn’t possibly do them all. Maybe over […]
hairy eyeball dreams fishing trawler cross section scrum anxiety “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku […]