https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/index.htmlEssays, writings, and tutorials about technology I thought worth sharing.enhttps://ve3zsh.ca/blog/index.htmlhttps://ve3zsh.ca/banner.png3188https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2025/03/22/charcuterie.html22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTOne of my favourite charcuterie boards.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2025/01/19/great_evil_characters.html19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTMy strategy for creating evil characters that are both believable people and clearly evil.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2025/01/03/omurice_bear.html03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTA cute teddy bear made of tomato flavoured rice and mozzarella cheese under a fluffy blanket of French omelette.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2024/12/14/knowledge_vs_wisdom.html14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe wise programmer is unafraid to seem novice.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2024/10/22/my_comments_in_response_to_ontario_bill_212.html22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTMy comments submitted in response to Ontario Bill 212.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2024/01/28/why_i_removed_my_xslt_feed_template.html28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTExplaining the reasons why I finally removed the XSLT feed template from my blog index feed.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2024/01/01/the_policy.html01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTSatire about the current sad state of the web and how it treats users.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/12/24/its_not_my_job_to.html24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTI finally figured out why people who start a sentence this way are generally scummy people.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/10/31/spooky_python_file_descriptors.html31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTFile like objects can behave in unexpected ways at times if you think too much of them like Python objects.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/10/06/team_based_development_tips.html06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTAssortment of tips and tricks I've picked up for working with teams of developers. Nothing groundbreaking, mostly things learned from others I've found useful.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/09/22/big_o_of_zero.html22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTThe speed of not doing work is key to software performance.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/06/12/tech_debt_just_means_messy.html12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTDoubling down on a bad metaphor, a response.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/04/16/how_to_practice.html16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTA guide to establishing a habit of professional practice.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2023/01/03/hosting_options.html03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTA taxonomy and pros/cons list for various website hosting methods in 2023.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2022/10/22/google_calendar_webcal_ical_url.html22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTA quick guide to getting the webcal formatted feed of a public Google calendar. Plus a bonus RSS URL for YouTube channels.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2022/09/20/rumps_royal_pain.html20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTA deeper look at floating point numbers and when they go wrong.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2022/06/20/if_devops_why_not_qasec.html20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTA possible future of quality software where security research skills help revitalise a dying art.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2022/06/16/human_responsibility_playbook.html16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTA pessimistic view of how people tend to handle the big issues in life.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2022/02/22/tech_debt_is_silly.html22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTThe metaphor of technical debt is not only barely helpful to explain the concept, it actively misleads non-technical people. We need a different metaphor.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2021/11/18/10_years_as_a_career_programmer.html18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTReflections on my last first 10 years as a professional software developer.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2021/09/09/anecdata.html09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTA collection of anecdotes about an observed phenomena. Just as useless as a single anecdote.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2021/08/21/uuids_and_b_trees_and_legacy_oh_my.html21 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMTAn adventure in improving the performance of a legacy system.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2021/05/15/graceful_gunicorn_timeouts.html15 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTHow to gracefully catch and cleanup when your Python web service is going to timeout.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2021/04/24/introducing_programmer_talks.html24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTJust a bit of discussion about the new programmer talks page I've created for this site.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/12/21/how_to_run_a_casual_dnd_one_shot.html21 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMTA friend is sizing up a D&D one shot for family this holiday season to parry the dreaded tabletop routine. I share the advice I gave her in case it proves useful to you.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/11/06/animated_reel_menu_update.html06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTQuick update about the state of my animated reel menu. Turns out we can optimise it by using the transform CSS style after all.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/10/31/decentralized_secret_management.html31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTThis post explores how you can manage secret credentials in a software project without the use of a centralized credential management server.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/08/03/rss_as_html.html03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMTHave you seen the RSS Feed for this blog? Turns out the major browsers all support a decent subset of XSLT.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/04/15/animated_reel_menu.html15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTSomeone suggested I write a post about how my menu button works. This is that post.https://ve3zsh.ca/blog/2020/01/24/how_to_secure_application_credentials.html24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYou've written code that needs to make authenticated calls. How do you securely manage your credentials?