Posts by Arie

Creating a test user,
Agile doesn't exist,
People on the Footpath,
Code Review is Bad and Good?,
Justifying code review to myself.
Notes on the Profitec Go,
My thoughts on this espresso machine after 18 months.
Your Best Manager Will Terminate You,
How I got fired from my first developer job.
Slop,
I’m sick of LinkedIn.
OpenSearch Serverless at Deputy,
The most egregiously over-engineered solution I have ever been a part of.
I Missed Working from the Office,
How I felt after five years of being fully remote.
Leetcode 3186: Maximum Total Damage (in Go),
I got skill gapped but I think I learned something?
Three Easily Avoidable Technical Interview Mistakes,
How I think candidates can leave less of the interview up to chance.
When Is It Okay to Work Late?,
What I think about working longer hours.
Dead Money,
I argue that the stigma around renting is unwarranted.
Postmortem: Deputy,
Why Deputy wasn’t right for me, in the end.
Three Ways to Make Your PRs (And Repos) more Readable,
My advice for writing human-readable code, even in the age of AI.
Hugo Commenting Systems: A Comparison of Open-Source Options,
Which comment system should you use for your static site?
Personalised Careers Pages Made With Generative AI,
How we built our hackathon project with Anthropic Claude and AWS.
Analog Photography (featuring the Yashica Electro 35),
How I restored a 50 year old camera into working order.
Ailo: didn't ask, don't want, don't need.,
My criticism of Ben White’s property management software Ailo, and how renters are the product, not the user.
Troubleshooting Reflections in Product Photography,
A quick article about what I learned on avoiding unsightly reflections.
Thoughts on Neovim & Some Configs,
How I’ve customised Neovim to my personal taste.
Deputec Locking and Timesheet Concurrency Problems,
Notes while thinking through concurrency problems.
How to Rebase,
A presentation I made at Deputy to explain why we might choose rebasing over merging.
Implementing CRC-32 in Decaf,
The challenge of implementing bitwise arithmetic in a high-level language without bitwise abstractions.
My Garry's Mod Projects,
Personal projects from my high school and early university years that generated my first programming income.