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An open letter to the security community 3 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Your community appears to be a disaster. I've already read about the following happening in your community/conferences: Women stripping being used as a prize in hacker jeopardy Jeopardy game feature...
You don't have to be a jerk to code review 17 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
By this point it's likely you've read about the discussion Sarah Sharp started on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) about the abusive nature of some of the comments there, she also wrote about it o...
Your tests are not a benchmark 15 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
I get a lot of feedback about people's experiences with PyPy. And a lot of it is really great stuff for example, "We used to leave the simulation running over night, now we take a coffee break". We al...
Thoughts on OpenStack 11 Jul 2013 | 10:25 am
Since I joined Rackspace a little over a month ago, I've gotten involved with OpenStack, learning the APIs, getting involved in discussions, and contributing code. I wanted to write a bit about what s...
Weekly Updates 20 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
One of the great luxuries of my new job at Rackspace is that basically everything I work on is open source, which means I also have the ability to write and talk about almost everything I do! Since a ...
Moving to Rackspace 7 May 2013 | 03:27 am
As you may have heard by now, I'm joining Rackspace. This was a very hard decision, I love my job at Rdio, I love my coworkers, and I love the product we're building. However, Rackspace has given me a...
Perception 17 Apr 2013 | 07:53 am
I've been reading Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In". It's a good book and I recommend it. One passage recently caught my attention. Writing about her first day at a new job: "'I can't believe you've gotten ...
Disambiguating BSON and msgpack 16 Feb 2013 | 10:24 pm
I had a fairly fun project at work recently, so I thought I'd write about it. We currently store BSON blobs of data in many places. This is unfortunate, because BSON is bloated and slow (an array is i...
Software Design: 80/20 libraries 7 Jan 2013 | 03:22 am
I'm trying a new format for content, instead of writing I've recorded some audio, I think this will be a better format for my to share ideas. You can find the audio here. PS: If you know a better wor...
Linux on the Desktop Dead 4 Sep 2012 | 12:32 am
At 10:40 AM this morning Linux on the desktop was pronounced dead by Dr. Randall Gnu at GPL Memorial Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The cause of death is, as yet, unknown but it is believed to be the r...
