Archive

A chronological collection of thoughts, tutorials, and engineering notes.

Date
Article
Category
2025.12

Engineering a Digital Identity: AI-Driven Architecture for Personal Brand

How a Staff Engineer used a 12-persona AI framework to migrate a personal site, treating creative identity as an engineering problem. Includes decision matrix, weighted scoring, and critical analysis.

Post
2020.02

Load Testing with K6

Implementing K6 for load testing user journeys with flexible configuration

monitoring
2020.01

Monitoring certificates on Windows and Linux with Splunk

Monitoring certificates on Windows and Linux with Splunk

monitoring
2019.06

Leaving Medium.com

Leaving Medium.com for my own hosted blog

website
2018.11

Long overdue update

netlify update ci
2018.11

Mention on Advanced Docker image build patterns by Gareth Rushgrove

docker ci mentions
2017.07

Shopify Syncing with Webhooks and logging with AWS Athena and S3

tutorial AWS
2016.09

Development Quality for Ruby and Chef (DevOps Weekly #298)

Post
2015.09

Icecast in Production (Devops Weekly #248)

Post
2015.04

DigitasLBi Case Study on ComputerWeekly

DigitasLBi AWS mentions
2014.07

CI and CD with Packer, Chef, AWS (Devops Weekly #187)

Post
2014.06

Setting Up for Infrastructure Development (Devops Weekly #179)

automation ruby
2014.01

Feedback loop from Logging and Monitoring to User Stories

Post
2013.12

How we use Metrics at 7digital

7digital monitoring
2013.09

Installing Kale Skyline

Post
2013.09

My musings with Golang, Part 1

Post
2013.09

Installing Kale/Skyline

monitoring tutorial
2013.08

Logging with Logstash, ElasticSearch, Kibana and Redis

Post
2013.07

Sentiment Analysis

ruby
2013.06

Housekeeping

culture, development

Post
2013.05

a more pragmatic approach is to estimate the

quote post-mortems
2013.05

consensus is an inaccurate measure of the

video design
2013.05

a complex devops solution understood only by an

video devops
2013.04

what i want is for it to keep the lights on it

quote devops
2013.04

how hacks affect software but the intervention

quote complex systems
2013.04

there are two antidotes to eroding goals one is

quote complex systems
2013.03

Monitoring Manifesto

monitoring
2013.03

if the land mechanism as a whole is good then

quote complex systems
2013.02

systems thinkers use graphs of system behavior to

quote complex systems
2013.02

we have a mantra that we share with our clients

quote scaling
2012.12

make it easy to deploy and distribute new checks

quote scaling
2012.10

Software as Design

design minimalism
2012.10

Everything is Continuous

monitoring
2012.09

theres never a problem getting a posse together

quote
2012.08

Statsd C# Client

monitoring
2012.06

Evolution of Deployment at 7digital

7digital automation
2012.06

capturing the upper limit of your web servers

quote scaling
2012.06

real world observations are worth more than any

quote scaling
2012.04

Metric-Driven fueled by Statsd and Graphite

monitoring
2012.03

before rushing to any conclusion about the speed

quote scaling
2012.03

7digital Tomahawk Resolvers

Amsterdam Music Hack Day 2012

7digital streaming
2012.03

the first rule of remote service club is that you

quote
2012.02

Karate Chop Kata and coding practices in Clojure 2

clojure
2012.01

Karate Chop Kata and coding practices in Clojure

clojure
2012.01

jim jarmusch

image
2012.01

a distributed application makes forward progress

quote rest
2012.01

to be able to grasp something of value sometimes

quote running
2011.12

Visibility of Status Endpoints

monitoring
2011.12

Status Endpoints

monitoring
2011.05

Transfer of Spotify Users

7digital spotify
2011.05

Tomahawk and 7digital

streaming 7digital
2011.04

More updates to ruby store

ruby 7digital
2011.04

Some more updates for the store

ruby 7digital
2011.04

7digital Ruby Frontend

7digital
2011.04

My experience with Bitly API

bitly ruby
2011.03

7digital Ruby store

7digital
2011.02

Gr1d Multiplayer Online Programming

dotnet
2011.02

Amazon SES and my .Net port for scripts

AWS dotnet
2011.02

starting a cs library at work

cs distributed systems
2011.01

microsoftwebmvc vs systemwebmvc

dotnet