Posts

• Restic: Backups are good. Restores are better. — 2026-11-01
• What in the World Was More Beautiful Than We, Their Children? — 2026-09-24
• Sicario: Denis Villeneuve's Study of Moral Injury — 2026-08-15
• One rule to mastery: always use your own brain first — 2026-07-05
• The Best Cyberpunk and Hacker Novels to Read — 2026-06-28
• FUD and How to Make decisions in the AI Era — 2026-06-06
• Three Books Recommended for the 1% — 2026-05-17
• I'll Never Board a Plane Designed by Optimists. Give Me the One Built by Engineers Obsessed with Failure Modes — 2026-05-03
• Using a Cryptographic Chain of Trust to Ensure Accountability for Script Authors and Software Running in the Enterprise — 2026-03-28
• Aerial Curiosity — 2026-03-24
• Just Use PostgreSQL as a Cache Instead of Redis — 2026-02-28
• Curiosity Will Get Us Out of Trouble — 2026-02-06
• Mark Carney Davos 2026 Speech: The Power of the Less Powerful Begins with Honesty (Full Transcript) — 2026-01-25
• Fiction 2025 — Stories That Let Your Eyes Rest from Netflix — 2026-01-13
• Nonfiction 2025 — 3 Eye-Opening Books: Nazi Mercenaries, Neurology, and Modern China — 2026-01-06
• Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, 1959 — 2026-01-01
• stop outsourcing your intelligence to an llm — 2025-11-16
• Why So Many Leaders Studied Philosophy — 2025-11-02
• The Ebb and Flow of Tech — 2025-10-18
• a technological analogy to illustrate the nature of workplace frustrations — 2025-09-02
• AI Learning Path for DevOps - A Series — 2025-08-04
• What the American Film Glengarry Glen Ross Teaches Us About Strategic Listening — 2025-07-21
• Scattered Spider: How to Defend Against the New Breed of Cybercriminals — 2025-07-13
• Following: When Kant Invites Himself into a Christopher Nolan Noir — 2025-06-14
• Action, to be effective, must be both slow and swift — 2025-04-17
• The Power of Prudent Uncertainty — 2025-04-01
• The Question from Elon Musk That Annoys: What Did You Do Last Week? — 2025-02-24
• Ensuring Security: Investigating Changes in ODROID LinuxFactory Package Origins — 2025-01-26
• What is similar to the Tao is destined for success. — 2025-01-09
• 2024 Reading List — 2024-12-31
• large companies should be ran in founder-mode — 2024-09-01
• Lose to Win and Win to Lose — 2024-05-12
• so you are #opentowork? — 2024-03-09
• interplanetary file system: just another blockchain scam? — 2024-01-20
• to preface or not to preface, that is the question — 2024-01-07
• books I've read in 2023 — 2023-12-27
• Dependencies and Hand-offs are slowing your team and organization down — 2023-12-02
• OpenAI: it takes more than good intentions to be successful at a coup — 2023-11-20
• How socraticDev closed a GitHub issue opened by Harvard most famous Computer Science professor — 2023-10-22
• con artists in academia — 2023-09-30
• reading the room is a soft skill — 2023-09-07
• Platform engineering should be seen as a form of internal institution to your organization — 2023-08-21
• Zoomers are talking: can you understand them? — 2023-08-15
• trust but verify — 2023-06-03
• Bloomberg Terminal: the Ultimate Software-as-a-Service — 2023-01-12
• books I've read in 2022 — 2022-12-27
• Software Bill of Materials: document your software supply chain — 2022-10-27
• Reinventing the wheel and changing the world — 2022-08-15
• Skip Level One-on-Ones — 2022-07-28
• Neuromancer, part 4 — 2022-07-03
• Neuromancer, part 3 — 2022-06-20
• Neuromancer, part 2 — 2022-06-05
• Neuromancer, part 1 — 2022-05-27
• I want to be functional — 2022-03-26
• A short guide to the perfect job seeker — 2022-02-20
• between shell, bash and others — 2022-01-27
• Take inspiration from the physical product development process — 2021-12-29
• why the software industry needs developer advocacy? — 2021-11-16
• simple project: automate the encryption of backup files — 2021-07-21
• Buck stops here : being intentional at software development — 2021-06-17
• The missing step metaphor — 2021-02-27
• Keep your data in your own personal cloud — 2021-02-13
• Always harvest those low hanging fruits — 2021-02-06
• Achieving by non-doing — 2020-12-11
• never cross the Bridge of Sighs unless you are truly indispensable — 2020-10-11
• Gift Culture might be your way out — 2020-09-12
• Annual Report filing for SocraticDev's blog — 2020-09-04
• What is SaltStack — 2020-08-16
• Expect: automation and semi-automation of processes under Linux — 2020-08-07
• Massively renaming files — 2020-07-12
• Write code now then ask for forgiveness — 2020-06-06
• So you really want to open-source your project ? — 2020-05-31
• Camus has already said a lot about the pandemic — 2020-05-18
• From 996 Working to ICU Waiting — 2020-05-10
• Having a sucessful side-project — 2020-05-03
• Not Without My Dutch Uncle — 2020-04-04
• Dark Patterns - Conned by Design — 2020-03-28
• Q & A with a devops professional — 2019-12-28
• Wise quotes — 2019-12-23
• Three kinds of Men — 2019-12-14
• dark side of metrics — 2019-11-16