Sinking Moon Press has officially published its first book, The Kunlun Secret, which I edited, available on Amazon.com right now:

Cryptographically signing your git commits prevents another person from making commits to a repository in your name. I have a couple of examples where someone has committed code in my name (never maliciously),

I recently encountered a problem that I’ve had in the past, so I thought I would make a post to remind (mostly myself) how I finally solved it. This helps me avoid a

Want to know how to have a great marriage? I can’t tell you, sorry. But I can tell you about what makes my wife special to me.

This story probably sounds familiar: you are in the middle of implementing a new webapp, writing th code necessary to support user profiles. You realize that you want to support user avatars (because

I’ll let you in on a little secret: Chrome’s devtools are essentially just another webapp. This means that you can check out data from the devtools in another devtools instance.

Yesterday, I ran into an issue with Pop! OS that resulted in me having to reinstall my operating system. I use a Yubikey for my SSH keys and to sign git commits, so

I was speaking with a colleague at a different company yesterday, and she gave me some advice that I thought was really interesting. It involves stealing ideas legitimately.

Containerization can be a difficult concept to wrap one’s head around, simply because of the commonality of the different terms involved. To remedy this problem, I recently decided to solidify some of this

How I write a commit message for version control systems, and why this even matters in the first place when you’re just trying to get patches out the door.

Background At my work, we’re considering using WebAssembly (hereafter abbreviated as WASM) because it allows us to cross-compile just about any language for use on the web. WebAssembly is a “binary instruction format

Introduction At the Sinking Moon School of Kung Fu, we teach Wu Chi Chu’an Kung Fu, but we also teach a certain amount of ethics and self-improvement. To this end, we’ve developed a

Motivation Imagine this situation: You’re a software developer who’s just been assigned a ticket. It’s a bug, and the symptom of the problem is that your app is rendering triangles where it should

Sometimes dropping your weapon is the only way to win a fight.

One of the things I will usually do when reviewing code is to verify that every commit within a pull request at least compiles. Since I learned a lot of my craft from

Introduction A couple of weekends ago, on October 31, I was watching the NCHC conference game Colorado College v. North Dakota. It was kind of a wonky setup, since I was watching it

If you’re not using RxAndroid, you should consider adding it as a dependency to your Android project. It makes life significantly easier when working with REST API calls.

Motivation: Poor Judgement (and lack of patience)

The Need for Readability

I recently finished the book Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins1, which is the last in a trilogy including both The Hunger Games2 and Catching Fire3. I was warned, by my sister, prior to starting

As part of the Readability 2.0 project, we’re trying a few different approaches to making text beautiful and easily readable on a mobile device in Firefox for Android. When text isn’t readable, most

Almost two years ago, my friend Ryan Carden started a martial arts school here in Burnsville, MN, and was kind enough to ask me to assist him in teaching. Since then, we’ve grown

I just finished reading In the Company of Ogres, by A. Lee Martinez1. The essential plot line follows an individual named Ned (called ‘Never Dead Ned’), who is probably what I would consider

During June and July, I was out in Mountain View, CA, at the Mozilla Corporation (and Foundation) headquarters, learning all I could about the process of creating Mozilla products. In June of this

Today just happens to be my one year anniversary working for my current employer. (I won’t mention the name of the company, but I will say it bears a striking resemblance to the

Dennis Hopper died Saturday, May 29, 2010.

So this past Thursday, April 8, 2010, the North Dakota Board of Higher Education voted to retire the nickname of the University of North Dakota, the Fighting Sioux1. For most Sioux fans, including

I figured I’d start this blog with a bit of philosophy. Why did I call it ‘The Nothingness of Software’1? Well, there are two reasons. The first is that software development, from my