Tech-enabled companies have collectively learned to scale up and out, horizontally and vertically, across physical and virtual boundaries. Our next crucial evolution is in our ability to reckon with the sheer volume of everything we’ve built at-scale. With the advent of AI-powered contributions piling even more on top of existing catalogs, the visibility and tangibility of our systems is swiftly eroding.

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Modern platforms are a product of where we came from and how much we can manage to build and maintain all at once.

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Last week, I decided to update the oldest of my personal sites that’s still online. It’s a password generating form that limits the number of times you need to switch keyboard layouts on mobile phones when entering the password (ie, lowercase alpha -> uppercase alpha -> symbol set 1 -> symbol set 2). The most recent commit was from June of 2016, so I was apprehensive about how well this would go. After pulling the repo down, trying to start it locally unsurprisingly flopped, which started me on the path to modernize the site, and ended at a complete rework of the original idea…

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Distributed systems are currently being churned out in record numbers. Solutions to fundamental problems around building, deploying, and maintaining these systems have matured to the point that agile companies can bring a new offering online in a matter of months and manage to avoid major outages.

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Linting

Analyzing code for inconsistent or questionable patterns.

Linting has become one of the more ubiquitous practices across all types of languages and frameworks. But have you wondered why it’s found in so many enterprise, personal, and open source projects? What has driven so much adoption in a field where there are so many differing opinions on what’s necessary?

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A showcase of the blog’s markdown features and styles.

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