I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around.
Wasm is the new CGI
And to be clear I don't mean the Common Gateway Interface as a protocol. I mean what CGI and the cgi-bin appli…
I've been softly recommending people start using 1Password for the past 5-10 years. I'm no longer going to be soft about it, you have to stop using passwords, they are horrible. 1Password is a password manager. The idea behind password managers is you hav…
This video dates back to around 2010 from an unknown source but remains my favorite. I give a version of this talk at every company I join. It's nothing new, but if you haven't heard it you need to hear it.
Mean time to recovery is better than mean time b…
My Product Manager Skylar asked me today to recap how our product team righted themselves after a year of hardship and they’ve been so good for so long I had forgotten where we came from. It feels really good when things jive.
It was a few things we put i…
As of today you can read this website without a web server by visiting dat://roborooter.com. If that link doesn't work for you, you'll need a DAT capable browser like Beaker Browser. And in early 2020 you probably don't have a DAT capable browser yet, so …
I wrote this for a 5 minute lightening talk at a local tech leadership meetup.
I code. At my previous jobs I coded 30-50% of my time. I would take non mission critical (usually pluming or maintenance) tasks and features. These days I have too many direct …
I decided to build a toy for my son. Buttons lights, the works. I’m far from done.
I spent a few weeks making an old Serial Mouse work. I've been tweeting a log of what I've done so far and I already wrote a piece on the serial mouse protocols.
You can use an old microsoft mouse by running npx serial-mouse-parser and find the source on …
I asked people on the internet for help choosing a linux laptop. People had opinions.
The laptops people suggested;
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 expressed that I think flexibility through simpli…
I write more for other people's blogs then I do my own.
When I think of the Kindle, I think of an awesome device (the big one is wonderful to use) with a free data connection that needs to be hacked to be useful. Hacked to remove the ability to remove bo…
I had a problem this week. I actually had the same problem lots of times. It was fustrating as hell.
I had quite a few Windows XP instalations to do, with new employees soon to arrive at work, new laptops arriving with Vista, and some old desktops that ne…
My GPG key for the next year can be found at his address.
https://www.wizardcomputing.com/gpg/wizard-roborooter.com.asc
I've had a few others for my roborooter.com address over the years, but somehow I always loose them. The private key that is. It's usua…
