Jul 18Morning Brain ChemistrySoftware development work is highly cognitive. So, I am always looking for ways to increase my mental capacities. Recently I came across a phenomenon called ‘Dr. Andrew Huberman.’ While he is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford, he is also a massively popular podcaster. The latter put me off quite…Morning Routines7 min readMorning Routines7 min read
Mar 28How to: Make a network cableTo my surprise, building a commercial public cloud has pushed me to learn a lot of new skills. Naive as I was, I thought “I know everything about code, the rest should be pretty easy.” Let me tell you, it is not. However, we have written a lot of internal…Rj453 min readRj453 min read
Sep 6, 2022The Flow Game‘Work in progress’ (WIP) limits can be counterintuitive if you have never experienced their effects. To help teach and illustrate the benefits of WIP limits, I have created a physical simulation, i.e., a board game. …Flow5 min readFlow5 min read
Feb 27, 2022Fast Egg DietI want to lose weight relatively quickly while staying healthy. However, I don’t want to change what I eat. Instead, I want to reduce my caloric intake by incorporating some fasting. This article lays out the model I will use and why. …Diet5 min readDiet5 min read
Feb 2, 2022From ‘if’ to automatic A/B testingIn 4 easy phases — Many teams use the words’ deploy’ and ‘release’ interchangeably, which signals that they are not utilizing A/B testing. Moreover, they are not using releases as a strategic tool. It is a shame since feature toggling and A/B testing was used in some of the tremendous successes in tech history: When…A B Testing10 min readA B Testing10 min read
Jan 12, 2022Purely Functional lg(n)-Algorithm DesignDuring education to become developers, we learn many skills, some of which are difficult to apply in our daily 95work. Unfortunately, like muscles, if we don’t use a skill, we lose it. Some of the skills that can be difficult to use in our daily work are complexity analysis, algorithm…Algorithms12 min readAlgorithms12 min read
Jan 3, 2022New year, new goals!Earth has once again passed an arbitrary point in its orbit, which means it is time for self-reflection. This post is a personal retrospective, asking: What did I set out to achieve in 2021? What did I accomplish? How will a successful 2022 look?New Year7 min readNew Year7 min read
Nov 17, 2021SBNZ, a single instruction virtual machine for funI have always loved playing with programming languages, compilers, and interpreters. One of my favorite languages to play with is a single instruction assembly language called SBNZ. In this programming journey, we first implement a virtual machine for SBNZ and then explore the power of the language. If you would…Virtual Machine4 min readVirtual Machine4 min read
Aug 16, 2021Improvement MondaysA step towards continuous improvement — In software development, it is easy to get feature blindness, where we focus almost all of our energy on delivering features to the detriment of productivity, quality, and job satisfaction. …Continuous Improvement5 min readContinuous Improvement5 min read
Aug 10, 2021Categories for non-functional requirementsAn alternative approach than the Flow Framework. — Working with software includes many different types of activities such as maintenance and feature work. If we don’t focus on balancing different types of activities we risk neglecting one to the detriment of productivity and job satisfaction. …Nfr4 min readNfr4 min read
