Techniques, stories, and rants about DevOps and site reliability engineering
Disclaimer: we were not in any way paid or solicited by drinkolipop.com to write this review, but if they would like to give us a couple cases, we wouldn't say no. A couple months ago, Dan and Ana introduced me (i.e., got me addicted) to Olipop soft drinks. Olipop is a "new kind of soda,"... Continue Reading →
This post describes the basics on learning to solve 3x3x3 cubes blindfolded. You can find a lot of good guides and videos, but I'm going to describe what finally clicked for me and how I do it. There are a couple other approaches, but most work pretty similarly. Solving blindfolded can look really hard at... Continue Reading →
Solving the 4x4 megamorphix twisty puzzle's rotated center parity
While this series of engineering failures may have happened a long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, it also happened last week in tech company not too far from here.
Way back in 2020, immediately prior to the release of The Mandalorian season 2, I put together a list of essential episodes from the animated series The Clone Wars and Rebels, focusing mainly on Ahsoka Tano and on the history of Mandalore and the Darksaber. I shoved that into a Google Doc that I shared... Continue Reading →
Solving the 5x5 gigamorphix twisty puzzle
Running In Production With Scissors 