Six Months with a Corne Keyboard
It all started when I first saw a tenkeyless keyboard. Compared to a standard 104-key keyboard, having only 87 keys (an entire 17 keys fewer!) seemed like the next best thing to sliced bread. Since I wasn’t a big user of the numpad, it seemed like a no brainer to reduce desk space, bring my mousing hand a few inches closer, and just feel like I was one with r/PCMasterRace. Oh how naive I was.
Hugo: Some Random Tips and Tricks
My intro to Hugo was back in 2016, a mere 3 years after its inception, when I was in my early days of learning web development. Quite a bit has changed since then, both in what Hugo is capable of and my understanding of how to actually code. I’m far from being a frontend dev, but I’ve gathered a collection of snippets that I’ve stumbled upon along the way in bringing this website up to more modern standards.
Using Google Cloud Pubsub for Batch Pipelines in Apache Beam
Google Cloud’s Pub/Sub is a useful service that provides an asynchronous and scalable messaging platform that decouples services producing messages from those that receive and process those messages. When combined with Apache Beam (and/or Dataflow, Google’s managed version of it), you can quickly develop powerful batch and streaming pipelines for data-parallel processing.
Tips and Tricks with Terraform's null_resource
Terraform’s null_resource resource can be useful when there aren’t any existing modules to satisfy your needs (with some caveats). Hashicorp’s documentation for it is a bit lacking, but fortunately there’s more information about the provisioners in their other docs here. After using these resources in a handful of places across our infrastructure deployments, I’ve developed a small collection of tips I picked up over the past few months that I thought I’d share.
Deploying Google Cloud Functions with Terraform
Cloud Functions are an easy, performant, and potentially inexpensive way to build serverless backends. I recently went down the route of setting up continuous deployments for them, and thought I’d share my learnings with it.
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