RustConf 2018 Portland OR
RustConf has been the first ever conference for a programming language that I was eager to attend. Since, it’s a new-ish language, the conference was not as big as, say, PyCon or KubeCon would be. This made it easy to talk to people you generally only know via Twitter. Also, the …
Terraform and YAML related notes
If you manage applications, you likely come across a ton of structured data that stays mostly static but must be tracked, version-controlled and be visible, especially when someone modifies it. For some folks, that is a CMS, for others a stack of papyri and for some more it is ju…
Leibniz’s monads
I recently discovered the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the polymath and philosopher. Some believe that he developed Calculus independent of Sir Isaac Newton, as a mathematician. We have been using Leibniz’s notation, in the infinitesimal calculus. He also contributed…