George Adams IV

Experimenting with Delivering a Reactive Python Application

Recently, I had to extend a console script written in Python 3 to be reactive. The new incarnation needed to execute a task on an interval or when it received a TCP signal. Sometimes, it’ll receive a burst of messages and other…

Insert a Command’s Output into a Vim Buffer

In my last post, I illustrated how to write the contents of the current buffer to a shell command via standard input. It would be cruel to not offer a mechanism to also read in from a command’s standard out. Most recently, I’ve used this to insert the…

See What You’ve Changed in a Vim Buffer

With an open buffer, you move around, check things out, and maybe you fat-finger a few keys. Something changed, but you’re not sure what.

You work on your project. You save your files and commit them. It’s time to go home for the day…

Upload a Rendered Template to S3 using Ansible

Ansible 2.0 has been released, making many common tasks much simpler and more robust. One problem that I often had was uploading a rendered template to Amazon S3. Ansible’s S3 module takes a path to a local file and uploads it to a bucket. However…

Continuing Education

Software Craftsmanship is all about raising the bar. Among other things, that means continuing to learn and improve oneself. From education, we derive new ways of thinking and gain experiences that lead us to create better solutions in less time. Back when I was a child, the value of a well…

How to Get Hired

Over the past few years, I’ve interviewed dozens of candidates for Software Engineering positions. I’d like to say I’ve created a perfect system, but that would be a lie. I still have plenty of biases that I’m constantly trying to squash. Identifying and controlling for those is difficult, and that…

How to Get a Custom Domain for Medium

As a software engineer, I can nerd out on details like the domain used to access my long-form posts and ensuring all my content is transmitted over HTTPS. Medium is a great platform for sharing content (securely), but there’s no obvious way to point https://blog…

New Year

Today is the first Sunday of 2016. Like so many others, I’ve decided to make some resolutions. My strategy is somewhat different than others. I don’t just want to lose weight, I want to add constraints to remove choice and simplify my life for the better.