Midnight strikes, I lose the wager, woken by a screeching pager, Scarlet hue means issue’s major, major OOMing on the node. SSH into the victim, tail and grep per playbook’s dictum, ‘Til revealed is cache eviction as what crumbled ‘neath the load. Run a dump of heap and threading, start the steps for shedding load. Who hath merged this wretched code? Bleary eyes see dashboards healing, weary mind’s still looping, reeling, Ired at some dev who’s stealing hours from my restful mode. Fueled by spiteful indig[...]

Much of Scala’s power comes from its flexibility and generality as a language. You can mold it quite extensively to suit your particular problem domain or coding style. The downside of this is that Scala can sometimes be permissive and accommodating to a fault. You often hear Haskell or F# users attest to a sense of “if it compiles, it works” – in my experience this is not generally the case with Scala. To illustrate this point, let’s walk through a few examples, all of which are distilled from honest-[...]

I’m happy to publicize a little project I’ve been working on recently: 1Poshword, a PowerShell client for the 1Password password manager. Code is available at https://github.com/latkin/1poshword. You can read the full details in the project README, but I’ve included the demo screencast and basic bullets below. Cross-platform (Windows/OSX/Linux, PowerShell v3.0+) agilekeychain and opvault support Login, Password, Secure Note, and Generic Account decryption Metadata for all entries Tab completion (agile[...]

I’m happy to publicize a little project I’ve been working on recently: 1Poshword, a PowerShell client for the 1Password password manager. Code is available at https://github.com/latkin/1poshword. You can read the full details in the project README, but I’ve included the demo screencast and basic bullets below. Cross-platform (Windows/OSX/Linux, PowerShell v3.0+) agilekeychain and opvault support Login, Password, Secure Note, and Generic Account decryption Metadata for all entries Tab completion (agile[...]

There is a page in the Hugo documentation that describes how to use MathJax to embed nicely-typeset mathematics in one’s Hugo-generated site. For my own site, I took this as a starting point and made a few improvements. Here’s how I do the math typesetting in this blog. Authoring I author my posts in Markdown, where the bulk of the content is plain text. When I want to include specially-typeset mathematical expressions, I use a custom shortcode to convert TeX-style equation definition into a snippet o[...]