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Pondered Kobayashi Maru Decision
OPINION

Pondered Kobayashi Maru Decision

Some of us drilled it, some tried it, some lived it. All of us lost — because in this case, the future was predestined.

21 Dec 2025
There Are No DevOps Engineers*
OPINION

There Are No DevOps Engineers*

* The asterisk is doing serious heavy lifting in the title. It usually does. But this time, it’s carrying an entire argument.

08 Dec 2025
Learning Path vs Discovery and Exploration
OPINION

Learning Path vs Discovery and Exploration

After attending Cloudflare’s Lisbon Engineering Meetup on using the Rust programming language with Cloudflare Workers, I felt a familiar sense of FOMO. Once again, I was reminded that I knew nothin...

12 Dec 2024
An Island and a Cloud.
OPINION

An Island and a Cloud.

Apple Prison? More like Apple Island.

26 Oct 2014
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