Software Engineering

Using git-remote-dropbox to host private Git repos on Dropbox instead of GitHub.

Migrating a static blog from Blogofile to Hugo, with a Python conversion script and S3 hosting.

Ditched WordPress for Blogofile to escape upgrade cycles and security exploits. Migrated to a static site generator written in Python that preserved my site's link structure and made editing posts in Vim possible.

Exploring domain-specific languages through building a web server: parsing JSON configs, handling keep-alive bugs, and weighing tools like Boost Spirit and ANTLR.

What monkey patching is, how it works in Python and Ruby, and why the two communities think about it so differently.

Exploring the Linux Block I/O scheduler: interview on dynamic runtime switching, limitations, and the splice interface for zero-copy data handling.

Exploring cyclomatic complexity metrics in Django, the Python web framework, and why software engineering measurements are rarely applied to open source projects.