Why are you hosting your own Redis?
Someone asked me on a mailing list if I worry about reaching my team’s limit in our ability to manage Redis. I wrote a bit about why I think our architecture helps mitigate that risk. I’m not sure I really...
Async Generators
I started streaming-iterables a few months ago to learn how to use async-generators and it was hard. The concepts all sound very similar but there wasn't a great resource that spelled it all out, even MDN left me wanting more. In...
We live in Memory
Oh happy day! I'm getting read! My day had come! So many times the Redis had passed me by. I never knew why I wasn't chosen...
Welcome Nate!
On May 15th 2018 Sara and I welcomed Nathan Arthur Gulotta into the world!
Voting Machines
God help me if any of these have a serialport. Update: They do have serialports! I noticed this document about the "findings from the Defcon 25 Voting Machine Hacking Village". It's epic. ⚡This is a fantastic read about hacking a...
Font Face
I got a new work laptop so it was time to bikeshed about my setup. I've switched to zsh (oh-my-zsh), iTerm2 (I finally get why you all like it!) and my colors are immutable but my font sure isn't. I...
First Commit in NodeJS Core!
I've got a few commits around Node.js's related projects. One or two on npm, countless on node-serialport, a few on node-pre-gyp, many others. It's been a nice long line of fixing bugs for myself and seeing small messes and cleaning...
Parting with Bocoup: the Best Place to Shape the Future
Last year Bocoup offered me my dream job. I was trepidatious at first, my company had just gone under, I felt disconnceted from my personal life and I wasn't about to rush into something new. I needed time to recover. So...
Sparkfun + Bocoup
I wrote a little blog post over at the Sparkfun Blog about how our work on the Johnny-Five inventors kit was guided by our love of the NodeBots community. I'm very very proud of our work on that project. =)...
Node Serialport v2.1.0
A few weeks ago I started maintaining node serialport after a long hiatus. We hadn't had a release in about a year and we had some outstanding bugs that I wanted to tackle. I had also introduced some complexity around testing, years ago, that...