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Containers, Composers, and Orchestrators

Containers, Composers, and Orchestrators

Containerization 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 terminology with an analogy.

Rust and Wasm Side-by-Side

Rust and Wasm Side-by-Side

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 for a stack-based virtual machine". Basically, this means it's a binary

git bisect: A Gentle Introduction

git bisect: A Gentle Introduction

You're a software developer who's just been assigned a ticket. It's a bug. This is a _regression_, which means that the app used to correctly render quadrilaterals, and now it's rendering them as triangles.

Rebasing Toward Independence

Rebasing Toward Independence

Make sure every commit within a pull request at least compiles. Having a linear git commit history enables this much more easily.

git transfusion

git transfusion

Motivation: Poor Judgement (and lack of patience) Recently, I've been working a lot with git, a version control system. My current company decided that it would be useful to switch from Bitbucket to GitHub. Given that we had a number of repositories already in Bitbucket, it became necessary

(Hopefully) Easier Firefox Building with JMozTools

(Hopefully) Easier Firefox Building with JMozTools

Introducing JMozTools One of the things I learned when I first started at Mozilla a little over a year ago is that there's this kind-of unwritten 'rite of passage', so to speak. If you want to be a developer, one of the first things you have

Font Inflation, Fennec, and You

Font Inflation, Fennec, and You

The Need for Readability Many people in the world now use mobile devices to browse the web. It's fast, convenient, and absolutely indispensable when you absolutely have to prove that you are correct in an argument. However, early on in the mobile browsing craze, my father asked me

Foxes, Monsters, and Dinosaurs, Oh My!

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 year, I chose to leave General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems to take a position as a Platform

An Update on the Title

So, I originally chose to title this blog "The Nothingness of Software." However, the more I think about it, the more I realize that software is only a small part of what I'd like to write about. I enjoy mythology (yay Lost), literary analysis, symbolism, software

A Bit of Philosophy

A Bit of Philosophy

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 perspective (and probably from the perspective of management) is like a void: