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A 100-mile ultramarathon on the Appalachian trails, food poisoning, stolen hiking poles, a coyote companion, and the strangers who carried me through the night.

A chance Uber ride in Ottawa turns into a conversation about art, incarceration, and the things we carry with us.

An introduction to Astroids.

Keeping a technology decision log for better engineering decisions.

A survey of tools for analyzing JVM performance.

Lessons learned from profiling Node.js applications using flame graphs.

On the dangers of cargo cult programming and how to avoid it.

The importance of understanding your domain when building software.

Thoughts on the challenges of writing maintainable software.

Introducing Json Transqlify - a tool for querying JSON with SQL-like syntax.

Reflections on writing good unit tests and avoiding common pitfalls.

How to monitor thread context switching in Java applications.

Exploring the landscape of hybrid mobile app development.

A practical guide to Search Engine Optimization.

Generating short descriptions for articles programmatically.

A guide on uploading files to Firebase Storage using Node.js.

Investigating a mysterious silent crash in Laravel.

Building a Chrome extension to count cards in the Jawaker card game.