Tag: tools

All the articles with the tag "tools".

• Parachuting In

  Published:Apr 28, 2026

  |8 min read

  I don't hand-write code anymore. The hard parts didn't go away.

• Ideas Die in Drafts

  Published:Mar 4, 2026

  |4 min read

  Some of my best ideas used to die before anyone saw them. That's changing.

• Wider, Not Faster

  Published:Feb 15, 2026

  |4 min read

  Working with AI changed what I'm willing to attempt. It also changed me.

• Jekyll to Astro: an AI-assisted migration

  Published:Nov 28, 2024

  |5 min read

  I migrated my old Jekyll blog to Astro using AI tools. It cut the time in half, and I learned a lot about what AI is good at (repetitive tasks) and where it still needs human guidance.

• Load Testing Guide

  Published:Jan 13, 2022

  |15 min read

  Our service fell over at 20% of projected traffic in a load test. How I plan tests, define success, and use the results to find what needs fixing.

• Programmer Resources

  Published:May 2, 2018

  |5 min read

  The blogs, books, talks, and courses that helped me grow as a developer, alongside a habit of regular practice and research.

• DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant & Ansible

  Published:Sep 19, 2016

  |16 min read

  A step-by-step Flask setup using Vagrant and Ansible to automate a local server, with Gunicorn and nginx. Part one of a 2016 tutorial series.

• Using Bandit in the Field

  Published:Sep 25, 2015

  |7 min read

  A field report from testing Bandit on Python projects in 2015: running scans, interpreting warnings, and deciding which findings need attention.

• Finding Vulnerabilities with Bandit

  Published:Sep 24, 2015

  |2 min read

  Slides from my SoCal Python talk on Bandit, including findings from scanning 16 open-source Python projects for potential security flaws.