No. 0301 min read
Filipino rap: yes, the words you don't understand count too
Francis M, Andrew E., Gloc-9, and FlipTop give you different ways into Filipino hip-hop.
Older issues
Page 2 of 3. Still shocking.
No. 0291 min read
Vietnamese rap: yes, you can listen without knowing everything
Suboi, Den Vau, and Rap Viet give you somewhere to start.
No. 0282 min read
K-pop is engineered. That isn't an insult, folks.
Clean vocal handoffs, songwriting camps, years of training, and shareholders.
No. 0271 min read
Koplo and the kendang: let the drummer finish, nimrod
Koplo puts the kendang in charge.
No. 0261 min read
Bass player first. Yes, the notes have to STOP.
Bass player first, producer because somebody had to be.
No. 0251 min read
The SEO floor: check the damned deployed site
Thirty checks for the technical floor beneath a static site: reachable pages, honest metadata, working assets, and verification against the deployed URLs.
No. 0241 min read
Eight arms, a hundred years of hiding, and now he needs a website
Octavitin would rather stay under the bed.
No. 0231 min read
Generating grime95, without leaking tomorrow's arrest
A fake county, real HTML, and two files called content.json.
No. 0221 min read
Why my sites are flat HTML. Yes, still.
My sites ship HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript on GitHub Pages.
No. 0211 min read
Two sabbaticals. Yes, they're on my resume.
Ten months across 19 states, time in Indonesia, and two entries I'm leaving on my resume.
No. 0201 min read
Your installer finished. Is the damned system working?
At Raymond James, Splunk and Dynatrace helped cut critical-error diagnosis and remediation time by 40%.
No. 0191 min read
Containers across 112 plants: green doesn't mean go, kiddos
At Jabil, I containerized iFactory applications and helped automate releases across about 112 plants.
No. 0181 min read
Twelve thousand CRM records. Please keep working.
I moved 12,000+ CRM records from Salesforce to Microsoft Dynamics without interrupting service.
No. 0171 min read
Reading HCRIS in Perl: where the hell did that number come from?
Perl, hospital cost reports, and $500,000 in tax-savings opportunities.
No. 0161 min read
Fasttrack: don't stretch the damned chart
I built a Rails celeration-charting app for educators.
No. 0151 min read
No customer impact. You think nothing happened?
Sprint's D3884 finished early and under budget with no customer service impact.
No. 0141 min read
Change management before DevOps: did billing get the damned records?
Ansible and GitLab helped me cut Sprint deployment errors by 30% and improve release speed by 40%.
No. 0132 min read
Runbooks for a smaller team. Write down the damned part you know.
Sprint's mediation ops team went from twelve people to four without losing coverage.
No. 0122 min read
Fifty million dollars. Show me the damned rubric.
Twelve vendors, 130 switches, and a $50 million replacement of Sprint's mediation platform.
No. 0112 min read
Reconciliation as a job: where's the damned file?
Fourteen years reconciling Sprint's network records with mediation and billing: finding missing files, repairing damaged CDRs, and accounting for the money.
No. 0101 min read
Alarm fatigue: your monitoring system found the caps lock key
ELK and HP OpenView helped cut resolution time for actionable Sprint mediation alarms by half.
No. 0091 min read
Fourteen years at five nines. Yes, we patched them.
Fifty servers, fourteen years, 99.999% availability.
No. 0081 min read
One user database. How many answers do you need?
Dial-up worked, email didn't, and the customer changed nothing.
No. 0072 min read
NT to Linux at sixteen. Yes, I still had homework.
At sixteen I moved Advertisnet's services from Windows NT to Linux/BSDi.