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# Conway’s Law

commit 22fe0c8
author eric jacobs
updated 2024-05-11T23:37:58-06:00
meta /about  —  #sre  #business  #devops  #conway's law  #slack  #reliability  #incentives 
tl;dr: you actually kind of like that even though you know it’s bad for your health because fixing things by shoving untested changes straight into production is exhilarating. you like doing cowboy shit.
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# Multi-region presence with anycast

commit 78eab30
author eric jacobs
updated 2024-05-11T23:18:33-06:00
meta /about  —  #anycast  #multi-region  #http  #fly.io  #hosting 
tl;dr: This blog is coming to you live from servers in California, Virginia, and Paris. Your requests are automatically routed to whichever datacenter is closer to you in order to get you these pages as fast as possible. Here’s how it’s done.
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# Neovim Markdown Frontmatter Syntax Highlighting

commit a0ea302
author eric jacobs
updated 2023-03-17T08:20:29-06:00
meta /about  —  #neovim  #syntax  #yaml  #toml  #frontmatter 
tl;dr: Neovim syntax highlighting for yaml & toml frontmatter in markdown files
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# Brace expansion is pretty neat

commit e6fac89
author eric jacobs
updated 2023-03-12T16:47:59-06:00
meta /about  —  #fish  #shell  #tooling 
tl;dr: Exploring the magic of brace expansion in the shell.
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# All systems go for Caddy

commit edd4c88
author eric jacobs
updated 2023-03-11T21:16:33-07:00
meta /about  —  #caddy  #http  #metrics  #prometheus  #security 
tl;dr: I’m using Caddy to serve this blog. Running Caddy with metrics and without exposing the admin interface was less straightforward than I was expecting, but here’s how it’s done.
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