Blogs

TLS All The Things!

We all know to use HTTPS and TLS on things that matter. For the last 15 years of work, without exception, I’ve used use https. But privately, I have quite a few domains for myself and for friends, and having TLS on a personal blog didn’t seem worth the investment. But, thanks to Lets …

Coding Temple Talk

I had a chance to give a talk for Coding Temple last night touching on why learning Javascript is a good idea. I also touched a bit on AngularJS and gave a perspective of a hiring manager to the participants of the coding bootcamp. Here are the slides: I’d be happy to present as a hiring …

How to Get Past the …

Hiring average engineers is easy. Hiring excellent software engineers is hard. So far this year, the hiring managers that I work with and I have seen 50+ resumes for 4 positions and made 2 job offers. The math here is not really in the favor of the candidates or our hiring managers. Every stage of …

Wordpress on Kubernetes

This wordpress instance is hosted on a private kubernetes cluster. The default wordpress docker image has an upload limit of 8MB, which made it difficult to upload this theme and to migrate from another provider. So, I created a new docker image that increases the upload limit to 128MB. If …