Coding Relic

On services I run, I make sure that we have a prober to check how long the site's certificate has remaining to allow AlertManager rules ...

When I first moved to California in 1992 I rented a one bedroom apartment in Mountain View at a complex called The Shadows. I remember it be...

Google (now Alphabet) hires a lot of engineers every year. There are articles out there about the interview process and how to prepare , and...

Something I find rewarding is helping others in their careers. I am quite happy to conduct practice embedded software engineer or manager in...

I have been at Google (now Alphabet) for almost 9 years. All things come to an end, and the end of my time at Google is approaching. I expec...

From the 23-Sep-2017 New York Times : One of those who said there had been a change is James Altizer, an engineer at the chip maker Nvidia...

This is a series of Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True, developed over the last few years of working at Google. Your...

Earlier this year I donated seed funding to the Ada Initiative , a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in...

K&R C is the finest programming language book ever published. Its terseness is a hallmark of the work of Dennis Ritchie; it says exac...

Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to ...

Last week Andy Firth published The Demise of the Low Level Programmer , expressing dismay over the lack of low level systems knowledge di...

It is often stated that the productivity of individual programmers varies by an order of magnitude, and there is significant research suppor...

I wrote some thoughts for a colleague about home installation of a rack for computer equipment. Much of it is generally applicable for any...

I recently had occasion to go digging around in the installers for MacOS System 7.0.1 and 7.6, extracting its excellent beep sounds to use o...

I currently work in a relatively large development team. As is the case with every team of that size, we are organized as one enormous group...