Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Astroids: Grindstone

  22 Feb, 2026

  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.

• Astroids: Mark, Corrections Officer

  30 Dec, 2025

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

• Astroids

  29 Dec, 2025

  An introduction to Astroids.

• Technology Decision Log

  10 Oct, 2024

  Keeping a technology decision log for better engineering decisions.

• JVM Performance Tools

  22 Dec, 2019

  A survey of tools for analyzing JVM performance.

• What I learned from Reading Nodejs FlameGraphs

  6 Apr, 2019

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

• Cargo Cult Programming

  5 Mar, 2019

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

• Know Thy Domain

  22 Aug, 2018

  The importance of understanding your domain when building software.