Your Codebase Returns Booleans, Integers, Exceptions, and Prayers.

You've spent years staring at codebases where every layer speaks a different dialect of failure. This service returns a boolean. That one throws. The other returns negative one because someone in 2014 thought that was clever. Your repository returns null. Your controller catches something, maybe, and logs it…

I Have The Best Life

1 Wife, 4 Kids, 3 Dogs, 6 Chickens, 1 Cat, 1 Cow (soon), 45 Black Shirts, 2 Pairs Of Red Wing Boots, 6 SF Giants Hats, 2988493 Empty Liquid Death Cans. I grew up in an open home. Talk about anything, anytime. I didn't. Who wants to discuss…

Deftones Are Life

There's something about this band that will forever pull me back to the 90s when I discovered them. I don't understand how each album managed to capture exactly how my life felt at the time of release. One of the underlying themes across their catalog, when…

Housemaid

My son and his cousin said it was good. Reviews agreed. Sequel already greenlit. I walked in thinking no way this delivers. Hype is usually a leading indicator of disappointment. I was wrong. The Housemaid is dark. It earns it. 10 bloody teeth and 10 hair follicles out of 10.…

Engineering Leaders Are Just Cargo Culting With Better Calendars

Oh engineering leaders, gather around. Part 565 of 45345 🍿 You read the same three books, implement the same quarterly theatre, and dont get me started on your hiring problems. You cargo cult the same radical candor frameworks while being neither radical nor candid. You talk about psychological safety in all-hands…

No Ghosts In My Closet

For some reason, regardless of the relationship, everyone has always known everything about me. I don't go around volunteering all my stories, but I also don't lie when asked. Never have. I've always struggled with liars. Not even the big lies. The obvious ones.…

What Is A Domain Event

Domain Events Fire From Domain Logic. Not Repositories. Not Anywhere Else. Domain events fire when something meaningful happens in your system. Not when a row gets inserted. When the business cares. A user didn't get inserted into a table. A user registered. An order wasn't updated…

Art is Creation

I believe art is not paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Art is creation. Growing up, I was obsessed with making things. Legos. Staying up late typing random words on the typewriter because the result on that onion paper was incredible. Building forts in the backyard. Creating routes for marbles to follow…

AWS ECS IS KING

I've deployed on everything. EC2 with custom AMIs. EKS. Bare instances. Dell Racks in the closet (this was a pain but needed at Energy Exemplar). Managed Instances. Heroku. DigitalOcean. Google Cloud got heavy at Betterleap where we spun up services constantly. Azure and I have met but we&…