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Published on 2024-06-16 by GCH

An IDEalization of Vim

You can turn Vim into a kind of operations-IDE by executing: sudo apt install tig curl -Ls vim.logical.li | bash The result is quite satisfying for management of Infrastructure as Code files but also for development, depending ...

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Published on 2024-05-02 by GCH

The Emperor’s New Clouds

TLDR Solutions offered by major cloud providers aren't always a good fit for startups, despite the preconceived ideas that became norm in the low-interest/easy-VC era. What's ideal for large profitable organizations might not be the best for ...

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Published on 2024-01-10 by GCH

Reliable invocation of HTTP APIs

As the new year sets in and winter once again proves to be cold, this blog is forced to give up on the silly season and return to its original greyness, to discuss the pains of unreliable ...

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Published on 2023-12-13 by GCH

HTMX-based Hello World

Update: if you are looking for the generator of fake dictionary entries click here . If you came for the blog post please see below :-) The Silly Season for this blog was short . It was ...

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Published on 2023-10-01 by GCH

Microservices and the Ops / Dev ratio

The question about microservices is an ill-posed one. We really can’t discuss this without a definition of micro . The word micro means something to large organizations like Google or Netflix – roughly speaking, it is a ...

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Published on 2023-09-19 by GCH

Python multiprocessing in 5 minutes

I was missing an easy-to-read example of the basic use of Python Multiprocessing so I decided to write one. Conceptual review: we want multiprocessing because we have access to machines with multiple CPU cores (either virtual or ...

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Published on 2023-09-16 by GCH

Fake dictionary entries

Update: if you are looking for the generator of fake dictionary entries click here . If you came for the blog post please see below :-) After a number of serious posts, I realized this blog needed ...

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Published on 2023-08-17 by GCH

Entropy in Engineering Processes

Entropy is a simple concept. Yet every explanation available on the Internet seems to be unnecessarily complicated. As such, the concept is poorly understood outside of specialized circles, and the word is often used in less than ...

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Published on 2023-07-07 by GCH

The seven deadly traits of startup culture

Things aren't going well. You struggle to understand how they got so out of control. Everything pointed in the right direction at start: you ticked all the right the boxes and made all the right choices. Yet ...

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Published on 2023-07-01 by GCH

Team capacity discharge: how doing things prevents us from doing things

Everybody knows that software needs maintenance. There should be no need to explain what happens to software without maintenance. This is far from controversial in abstract terms but few people are ready discuss the specific numbers. Perhaps ...

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Published on 2023-06-18 by GCH

Devops: the funeral

Devops is dead, they say. But the death of Devops is no more than the death of a word. A word – like agile or microservices – that is a tad too open for interpretation. Nobody owns ...

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Published on 2023-06-05 by GCH

Hype trains considered harmful

They come with a bang, they generate more FOMO than the last available room in booking.com, and when they leave it's your job to collect the wreck. In 2023, strange as it may seem, hype trains are ...

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Published on 2023-06-03 by GCH

Ideology

An ideology is a fixed set of ideas. There's nothing wrong with that. But the adoption of third-party sets of ideas without enquiring whether the elements in those sets make sense together, or if some of them ...

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Published on 2023-05-31 by GCH

The four modes of contemporary thinking

As a next step towards the understanding of contemporary human beings, I myself must venture into the dreaded business of simplification . I'll make this as simple as possible, but not simpler . For almost everything in ...

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Published on 2023-05-15 by GCH

Group sex and the math of political correctness

The greatest challenge in group sex is probably the logistics of consent. It is a central tenet of mature societies that in all sexual encounters everyone must approve of everyone else. Therefore, the logistics of consent grows ...

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Published on 2023-05-09 by GCH

Simplism is dragging us down

Sometimes the view in front of us might not look especially sharp but we can still grasp the big picture. Other times the huge pixels of oversimplification cover up all nuances of reality. When decision making is ...

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