In 2013, at EVALS, I implemented the command bus pattern for the first time quite heavily. We had a modular backend, and using it as a way to coordinate across module boundaries felt cleaner than injecting services or passing DTOs around. It had intent baked in. Action. For the right…
You're an engineer with a Turborepo monorepo, pnpm workspaces, Next.js, Docker Compose with Kubernetes, Helm charts, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Datadog, and whatever landed on AWS this week. You think you're building something sleek. You're building a 40-story skyscraper to serve a lemonade stand.…
I watch Seinfeld. I watch Seinfeld every. single. night. I’ve done this for years. My wife has never seen a single episode of Seinfeld, but she can quote it like clockwork, and fill in the punch lines because she’s heard the entire series 320x times. When I’m…
A narcissist will try to destroy your life with lies before you can destroy theirs with truth Truth will always win, trust me.…
Twenty-five years of backend services. I've shipped MVC, MVVM, full DDD, hexagonal, clean architecture. All of them work. None of them are wrong. But when I start something new, I keep defaulting to the same structure. SOA with a thin application layer and domain modules. Not because it&…
There is something that outlives the body. There is something that knows your voice before your name. There is something that forgives the wound before the apology. There is something that holds the silence when the room empties. There is something that buries its dead and sets the table anyway.…
The Great Gamer Tag Identity Crisis of the early 90s. WarMachine. I don't know where it came from. Ozzy had War Pigs but that wasn't it. Somewhere in my head there's a ghost reference, a song or a lyric or maybe just the word…
We were discussing today how recently, one of her business partners did her and her other business partner dirty, very similar to what happened to me earlier in 2024. She said “how do people like this lie, and lie, and lie and think it won’t catch up to them?…
"Cops are at their house again" a neighbor told us. We installed external cameras and internal garage cameras nearly two years ago. We called them the "Chad Detection Cams" and they pickup motion, and sound, ALL SOUNDS including talk 😄 We told our kids they couldn'…