Dumb-ish phones: a love story
or, how I over-engineered my way out of habitual scrolling
Scott's Ramblings
Tech and opinions tied loosely together by a thread of novelty
Latest posts
Introducing Geoff
A boring personal assistant for boring people
All Along the Calltower
An adventure of discovery into the C calling conventions
“The Stack!” cried Mary
A primer on the call stack.
Combining OpenTelemetry and Java auto-instrumentation
Combining OTel and auto-instrumentation for sweet-spot instrumentation
Custom static analysis for your apps with CodeQL
Building project-specific static analysis rules with CodeQL to catch architectural violations and project-specific anti-patterns
I vibe-coded a path tracer so you don't have to
And it worked, ish. Exploring the boundaries of AI-assisted coding through ray tracing.
Coding Assistants: A Case for Better Static Analysis
How we can improve AI-generated code quality through better static analysis tools and architectural unit testing
OpenTelemetry: Contextful Context
Understanding OTel's Context passing
Now
This post explores insights and updates on Now.
Talks and Writing
Talks I've given, things i've written.
From Systems to Services II: Java & Quarkus
Is it time to swap your high level language for Rust for your microservices?
Rust: From Systems to Services
Is it time to swap your high level language for Rust for your microservices?
What's running that? Load Balancer ID from Hostname II
Continuing our journey to identify cloud load balancers based on how they talk.
Faster multi-arch container builds: golang edition
Learn how to cross-compile with golang
Faster multi-arch container builds
Learn how to use Rust's native support for cross-compilation
Everyone should try Helix
Helix: a text-editor for the disenchanted
First month at Datadog
This post explores insights and updates on First m
What's running that endpoint?
Identifying Cloud Load Balancers behind endpoints
Introducing Minderbinder
Introducing Minderbinder - a tool that uses eBPF to inject failures into running processes.
Swiss Public Webcams Spelunkomania
This post explores insights and updates on Swiss P
eBPF Network Vershitifier
This post explores insights and updates on eBPF Ne
An eBPF-y Addendum - How do uprobes work?
This post explores insights and updates on An eBPF
Adventures in eBPF
First steps with eBPF, looking at capturing unencrypted SSL traffic
Infrastructure from code
This post explores insights and updates on Infrast
Automating Tailscale exit nodes on AWS
Using the AWS CDK to provision multi-region tailscale exit nodes.
Vectorized Sports for Fun and Profit
Extract and visualize strava data with a simple webapp and vector tiles