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Eugene, a light brown and white colored pitbull dog, resting on his large head and paw on a couch.

This week in Eugene (1/4/2025 edition)

Today marks the first edition of a semi-regular post featuring Eugene's antics for the last week or so in photo format. Hope you enjoy it. He got into the holiday spirit. He played with his cousin Ivo and battled over corn (we've all been there). After

New year, new (spooky) personal site 👻

New year, new (spooky) personal site 👻

For 10+ years I've been hand rolling my own blog and it's been...fine. My site was never going to win any design awards, but it was always fast, readable, and accessible. I used Jekyll + Github Pages for a while and more recently Hugo + Cloudflare to

Why you should federate your Threads account

Why you should federate your Threads account

tl;dr: It works like email, and your posts will have a much wider audience over time. Audience / Purpose This is a simplified primer for normals to hopefully convince y’all to use federation from Threads, so I’m going to be generalizing and glazing over details. Nerds, don’t

From IC to EM – A guide to stepping into the weird, wild world of management (Women Who Code Mobile 2022)

From IC to EM – A guide to stepping into the weird, wild world of management (Women Who Code Mobile 2022)

So you’re thinking about becoming an engineering manager, eh? Awesome, let’s go! I considered this exact same decision about a year ago, and ultimately ended up taking the leap. I’ll walk you through how I made the call to switch to being an EM after many years

How I do photo backups (in 2021)

How I do photo backups (in 2021)

If you’re anything like me, you prefer to have complete control over your photo library files. But backing up those files on a rolling, ongoing basis has long been a pretty disjointed and painful process. How do you get photos and videos off your phone on a regular basis,

Writing and invariably getting shit on

Writing and invariably getting shit on

If you’re writing anything of consequence, the sad reality is that you’re probably going to get shit on. Whether it’s a short blog post or a 10,000 word essay, someone will find a way to object to your ideas or question your motives in a not-so-friendly

Ktor for Mobile Developers — Fear the server no more! (KotlinConf 2019)

Ktor for Mobile Developers — Fear the server no more! (KotlinConf 2019)

Building mobile apps is what we love to do, but there’s always one nagging problem — writing server side components to support our apps can be surprisingly complex and difficult. There’s a lot of overhead and a bunch of unfamiliar languages, frameworks, and styles of programming that we’re