May 2022

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What’s in a monorepo?

I think there is more talk about the how of monorepos than the why or the what. Once you know that you’re going to go (or convert to) the monorepo format, there are all sorts of interesting technical challenges like sharing packages (or not), shared config, and whatnot. But why do it at all? That […]

Isn’t being fat just unhealthy?

So goes the question in zeitgeist. A lot to unpack, as they say. I was thinking about this after staring at a slide Virgie Tovar posted to Instagram that reframes instead of directly answering: View this post on Instagram Here are a few from that slide. Better questions: Q: Why do we use BMI — […]

Monkey

The local community college had a STEM night the other night. A friend of mine who is a librarian there and a wonderful fiddler asked me and a few other local musicians if we’d play in front of the gardens for the kids passing through. Someone snagged a tiny bit of one of the songs […]

Spending some time this morning writing my state reps

Embarrassingly, aside from voting, I haven’t been particularly politically active since college. But since the literal president is like boy golly gee somebody should do something (😳), instead of doing even the bare minimum, I can at least make sure everyone else whose job it is to represent me knows exactly what I want to […]