My CircleCI blog posts

For the last 4 years, my creative juices have mostly been applied to writing about CircleCI, the developer ecosystem, and Continuous…

For the last 4 years, my creative juices have mostly been applied to writing about CircleCI, the developer ecosystem, and Continuous Delivery. Here’s the stuff I’m really proud of.

It’s the Future

Satire on the Docker ecosystem. This is probably the best thing I’ve ever written. [HN comments]

It’s The Future
Hey, my boss said to talk to you — I hear you know a lot about web apps? -Yeah, I’m more of a distributed systems guy…

It really is the Future

Much maligned followup on the Docker ecosystem. [HN hated this one]

It really is the future
Last week I wrote “It’s the Future”, a piece that satirized the container ecosystem, lightly mocking Docker and Google and CoreOS and…

Developers matter

Discussion of the New Relic IPO and it’s impact on the developer ecosystem.

Developers Matter: New Relic IPOs
New Relic IPOd this morning, making it the first IPO for a Ruby Gem. About 3 years ago, nobody believed you could make…

Critiquing Facebook’s new PHP spec

This was a lot of work. [HN liked it]

Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec
Yesterday, Facebook released an iniital draft specification for PHP. Written by a team of Facebook employees, including…

“Silence is for the weak”

I like a quiet office. [So does HN]

"Silence is for the weak"
In yesterday's " Vacations are for the weak", Seth Bannon said: " Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well…

Testing 3rd party APIs and Microservices

I haven’t seen this topic discussed elsewhere before, but I think it’s good stuff.

Testing 3rd Party APIs and Microservices
There's a lot of challenges in testing your code against 3rd party APIs, so I'm going to explain…

How Apple Cause the iOS Kindle glitch

Guest post on PandoDaily.

How Apple caused the iOS Kindle glitch
Recently, Amazon took a lot of heat for releasing an iOS Kindle update that deregistered user accounts and deleted…

Perpetual Motion

2015 panel at Web Summit in Dublin. Not technically writing, but this was really good and you’ll enjoy it if you’re into Continuous Delivery.

These were fun but no awards for literature

Testing is Bullshit

A call to arms announcing CircleCI.

Testing is Bullshit
Testing is bullshit. I never signed up for this. I learned to code so I could make things, to make the world a better…

Container Wars

Pure flamebait.

Container Wars
The container wars have started!…