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    I Shipped a Merge Request to a Repo I Had Never Seen, in a Language I Have Never Used

    Sep 20, 2026

    In an afternoon, I got a merge request merged into GitLab in a language I do not write, in a codebase I had never opened, and it won a cash prize. Here is what that actually looked like, and why the code was the easy part.

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    On Spotify: My Interview with The Solver's Edge

    Sep 22, 2022

    On Spotify: My Interview with The Solver's Edge

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    On Dev.to: Free Code Coverage for Pull Requests on GitHub

    Aug 28, 2021

    On Dev.to: Free Code Coverage for Pull Requests on GitHub

  • Who will clean the toilets?

    Aug 21, 2021

    Discussions about basic income and sometimes immigration devolve into a discussion about how the unpleasant work of society will be done if coercion of some…

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    On Dev.To: The Chrome Extension Deployment Checklist

    May 1, 2021

    On Dev.To: The Chrome Extension Deployment Checklist

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    On Dev.to: How to debug an Office.js Manifest File

    Dec 22, 2020

    On Dev.to: How to debug an Office.js Manifest File

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    On Stack Overflow: How to communicate more deliberately when working remotely

    Oct 22, 2020

    On Stack Overflow: How to communicate more deliberately when working remotely

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    On Freedom With Writing: The Anatomy of an Instructional Pitch.

    Aug 21, 2020

    On Freedom With Writing: The Anatomy of an Instructional Pitch.

  • There Must be Useful Processes For Resolving Real World Edge Cases

    Aug 6, 2020

    One of the tragic facts of the Beirut Explosion is that not only was it preventable, but that the problem was reasonably well known. Many…

  • There Should Be Social Engineering Bug Bounties

    Aug 1, 2020

    Millions of dollars are available if you find technical flaws in major products that allow you to breach their systems. How much can you get…

  • You Should Spend 250 Hours Learning About Mortgage Interest

    Jul 3, 2020

    People have a very casual attitude to one of the most consequential financial decisions of their lives, their mortgage interest. Let's assume you are buying…

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    On Software Engineering Stack Exchange: Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?

    Jun 30, 2020

    On Software Engineering Stack Exchange: Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?

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