More Pablo: engineering

2023-07-19 — Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos. (🕑 11 min) AI/LLMs are cool, but few people talking about them seem to understand the breadth and depth of their limitations.
2023-06-13 — 👩‍🎨 Being "rockstars": when software was a talents/creatives industry 🎭. (🕑 15 min) I offer a high-level model for why software work feels like it sucks now: we don't treat software like creative output.
2023-05-14 — 🤠 "Where have all the hackers gone?" + a way to discuss programming languages 👨‍🎤. (🕑 14 min) A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
2023-03-10 — 🧪 Technical Storytelling: Making of Elixir at Ramp 🗣. (🕑 9 min) A look at the process and tactics behind a technical blog post I wrote, optimized for storytelling.
2023-02-28 — 🤖 Fighting over frameworks ⚔️. (🕑 15 min) Folks got mad at each other over JS but I think they're talking past each other, the real issue is accountability.
2022-11-28 — 💻 Programming culture in the late aughts 🤓. (🕑 8 min) How it felt to be computing in the late aughts vs. now.
2022-09-13 — 🤓 So you're using a weird language 🧠. (🕑 11 min) Tips and narratives around picking a weird language for your project
2022-04-19 — 📕 Squardle bot 🤓. (🕑 6 min) Write-up of the little Squardle bot I wrote.
2020-06-27 — 🎭 Discrimination, Python pattern matching 🐍. (🕑 7 min) Some favorite essays, some ethics aren't that hard, and Python pattern matching.
2020-05-08 — 👻 Tales of Ecto Anomalies 📚. (🕑 7 min) Ecto is my favorite DB library; I document some odd corners (or limitations) I've found working in it.
2020-04-26 — 📊 Squads, pods, and the Spotify model 🗣. (🕑 6 min) We used something like the Spotify model at CP, had some experiences that match (and others that don't) the issues brought up in the viral blog post.
2020-04-15 — 💻 Command line, AOC 🇺🇸. (🕑 4 min) Waxing/waning on CLI after a successful sed command. AOC.
2020-04-04 — 🖥 Desktop software, tangles 🧵. (🕑 4 min) Read a few articles, brought back software memories on compile times.
2020-02-17 — 🐫 New Fleaswallow, SourceHut 🤖. (🕑 4 min) Tweaked Fleaswallow some more, new code hosting
2020-02-12 — Introducing Ramp 💳. (🕑 4 min) That thing I've been working on: we're launching!
2019-10-10 — Mark Mode tutorial. (🕑 3 min) A tutorial on how to Mark Mode your site.
2019-09-09 — 🤓 Fun, odd code things 🐉. (🕑 4 min) Pointers to some *\_-eXtReMe c0d3 cr4Ft-_/* that tickles me
2019-09-04 — 🏄‍♀️ How I Surf the World Wide Web 🕷. (🕑 4 min) I'm your friend wearing a tinfoil hat re: web browsing.
2019-08-24 — 🐸 Fleaswallow 2, and an OCaml setup 🐫. (🕑 17 min) I decided to step up my OCaml game, here are lessons I learned; this post is a monstrosity.
2019-08-01 — 🐄 Beefs with Docker 🐳. (🕑 9 min) I have some beefs with Docker, also talk about what's good about it.
2019-05-27 — 💊 Deconstruct 2018 Talk: A Fresh Look on Failure 🗣. (🕑 1 min) My Deconstruct talk is up! Links to the talk, further reading, the proposal video, and more
2019-05-16 — 💻 Back on my bullshit: Self-hosted Adventures ✉️. (🕑 12 min) Overthinking self-hosted services.
2019-04-26 — 🤖 Machine Learning: Programming's Asbestos 🧠. (🕑 7 min) Recent Machine Learning advances are cool but IMO pretty overhyped.
2018-12-22 — I don't recognize that 🗣 🙉. (🕑 5 min) Suggesting that CSS-In-JS is just another example of "not my problem, therefore invalid."
2018-08-18 — Working hours for engineers 🗓. (🕑 6 min) Engineering is weird work, so talking about hours is weird too
2018-06-04 — GitHub + Microsoft ramble 😼. (🕑 5 min) Some rambles about the recent acquisition news.
2018-05-18 — "What do you think of JavaScript"? 👾. (🕑 7 min) JavaScript is a lot to think about
2018-05-10 — Alice Goldfuss: Foot Candles in tech 📹. (🕑 1 min) A favorite thing on tech culture I've read.
2018-04-20 — Deconstruct and Donuts 🍩. (🕑 3 min) I got accepted into Deconstruct, and want to celebrate my wins.
2018-04-19 — Hugh Jass Message 🗣. (🕑 3 min) A small project to troll your friends.
2018-04-17 — Stories, making things, education, hopes 💻. (🕑 4 min) Thoughts and reactions to a great story on One Laptop Per Child.
2018-03-21 — 🐍 Python, classes, tuples. (🕑 4 min) Resources I used to learn (and kind of enjoy) Python
2018-03-18 — My setup. (🕑 6 min) What my computer usually looks like, workspace tools.
2018-03-09 — Engineer Showboating. (🕑 8 min) How to fake it (in 2010, anyways)
2018-03-01 — What developers mean when they say "Legacy Code". (🕑 5 min) I talk a bit about meanings behind the phrase "legacy code."
2018-02-20 — Trying OCaml 🐫. (🕑 4 min) I announce a static site generator I wrote and describe first OCaml impressions. 🐫
2018-02-12 — Fun rituals for the Coder at Work 🖥. (🕑 5 min) <small>_🎵 The song for this post is [Motownphilly][12], by Boyz II Men._</small>
2018-02-08 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 2: Behind the symptom. (🕑 6 min) <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
2018-02-01 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 1: Leaders and Org Worms. (🕑 6 min) _🎵 The song for this post is [Survivor][9], by Destiny's Child 🎵._
2018-01-29 — Blogs, and many of my favorites. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-23 — Services, monoliths, modularity. (🕑 8 min) A people perspective to why so many startups wanna Microservice, and why I think this isn't the right call.
2018-01-10 — ⛓ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ⛓. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-04 — Minimal Pages, brought to you by the letter F. (🕑 2 min) New look! [Two][1] [screenshots][2] of the before (and the previous new look was
2018-01-02 — Towards a More Open Web. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2017-06-05 — An anecdote on runtimes. (🕑 6 min) <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 20px auto; text-align:center">
2016-12-29 — Advent of Code 2016. (🕑 3 min) A co-worker linked a few of us to [Advent of Code][1], a coding challenge that
2016-10-12 — Observations after another go-round of tech interviewing. (🕑 5 min) Ha! So I'm leaving Reonomy. Not what I thought I'd write after the way [that
2016-01-06 — Augmenting Dropwizard with Swagger and Rollbar. (🕑 10 min) _The following is a cross-post with the [Reonomy blog][13]. It was made to soar
2015-07-05 — Using Erlang. (🕑 8 min) _The following is [cross-posted with the Ghostlight blog.](http://blog.ghostlight.io/erlang/)_
2015-05-28 — My favorite hypothetical virus. (🕑 1 min) I took and TA-ed my college's [Computer Security course][1], where we did things
2015-05-11 — I like Java fine. (🕑 8 min) **Statement: I am plenty happy to use Java in a large number of contexts.**
2015-05-01 — Salary, compensation, and tech labor.. (🕑 4 min) Today on Twitter is [#talkpay][1], where we do what's common in many countries
2014-12-01 — _Sup for Android_ - Part 3. (🕑 4 min) And the final part!! [Part 1][1] covered architecture, and [Part 2][2] covered
2014-12-01 — _Sup for Android_ Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. (🕑 8 min) Welcome back! [Part 1][1] covered architecture, and [Part 3][3] covers testing and
2014-12-01 — Tech overview for _Sup for Android_ - Part 1. (🕑 5 min) I’m one of a small team of engineers for [Sup][1], now on the [Play Store][2]
2013-12-04 — Done with Compilers. (🕑 6 min) I'm on a bit of a professional hiatus right now, having left Google in August
2013-09-29 — Verbing Software. (🕑 4 min) I've mentioned that often people will often
2012-10-22 — loving yourself with EBOOKS. (🕑 6 min) While I'm still ramping up at the [new gig][1], I've found a love of code again
2012-01-17 — Testing, and the lost art of the manual. (🕑 8 min) Note: I edited a bunch of this language to be a bit more, uh, fair. Looking
2011-11-14 — Pretentious Titles and Pedantry, Part Paul. (🕑 5 min) Here's a long overdue post: what the hell is up with the title to your earlier
2011-05-31 — On Failure (Computing). (🕑 3 min) While I'd also like to speak of [personal failures][1] today, I've been thinking
2011-03-24 — Kill Null. (🕑 4 min) The other day, I
2010-12-10 — Something nice about every language I've used. (🕑 3 min) Inspired by [this post][1] (and more great answers on the [reddit comment
2010-11-13 — The Road to Lisp Survey. (🕑 3 min) I, Paul Meier, do solemnly offer these responses to
2010-04-08 — Software and Evolution. (🕑 4 min) I think the software is growing, and will continue to grow, the way lifeforms have grown
2010-04-06 — Common Lisp. (🕑 2 min) I've been playing around with Common Lisp recently, using [Practical Common Lisp][1]
2010-03-31 — Code-related lulz. (🕑 1 min) The first is the [only conceivable improvement][1] I could think of for [my baby, vim][2].
2010-02-24 — GC, Continuations, Ruby Internals. (🕑 3 min) When I was about 6, I told my mom I wanted to be a garbageman when I grew up.
2010-02-22 — m4d H4X. (🕑 3 min) For two years I was a UTA for our department's [Introduction to Security][1]
2010-02-15 — Hiatus - And a voyage of vim. (🕑 4 min) Sorry for the lack of updates. I hate when blogs say that, but publishing less
2009-12-28 — On-Demand Prime Generation. (🕑 4 min) Many [Project Euler][1] problems are made easier if you have a good facility
2009-12-14 — Prologgin'. (🕑 8 min) Exam season is a royal pain, but I find ways to entertain myself. My most
2009-11-14 — Reading List. (🕑 2 min) Almost as contentious (maybe more) than asking a programmer what their favorite