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1. Incident: Temporal Thundering Herd 2026-06-10 incident temporal
   An incident with Temporal where a thundering herd made it worse
2. Bad in the Second Derivative 2026-06-09 thoughts
   Identifying a bad thing that will never improve
3. 2026-06-01 2026-06-01 reading
   Reading notes for 2026-06-01.
4. Python Collection Types for Typehinting 2025-12-01 python
   An explanation of Python's type hierarchy of collection classes for typehinting
5. 2025-11-24 2025-11-24 reading
   Reading notes for 2025-11-24
6. Radical Candor 2025-11-05 reading
   Reading notes for Radical Candor by Kim Scott
7. 2025-10-06 2025-10-06 reading
   Reading notes for 2025-10-06
8. Reading Ludicity 2025-08-05 reading
   Reading notes for https://ludic.mataroa.blog/
9. A Git Workflow for Debug builds 2025-04-01 using git
   A git workflow for debugging projects where you need to push a commit for a system to run that code.
10. Migrate Files Between Git Repositories 2025-04-01 howto using git
    How to move files from one git repository to another
11. Enwiden the Internet 2024-10-12 off-topic
    Make the Internet full-width
12. Migrating a project from tox to Pants 2024-03-22 python howto
    Lets walk through migrating a Python project from tox to the Pants build system
13. The DNS Shenanigans that make Azure Private Endpoints Work 2024-02-11 azure hindsight
    Azure private endpoints allow you to privately access services via their public DNS names. DNS shenanigans are at play.
14. 2021-03-15 2023-03-15 reading
    Reading notes for 2021-03-15
15. Testing Azure Durable Functions in Python 2021-11-30 serverless azure testing python
    It is possible to test Azure Durable Functions in Python, but it's more difficult than you'd want and not for the reasons you'd expect
16. Eleventy Include Code File Verbatim 2021-11-15 eleventy
    An Eleventy shortcode to include a code file verbatim
17. Having fun with Azure Bicep 2021-11-14 trying bicep azure
    Bicep is a different way of deploying resources on Azure. It is hopefully less painful than ARM templates.
18. Faking a better HttpApi plugin 2021-07-30 ansible
    How I faked a new class of plugins in Ansible, in this case for HTTP API connections
19. Understanding Ansible HttpApi plugins 2021-06-30 ansible
    How to write an HttpApi plugin. These let you interact with HTTP APIs better.
20. Writing a Vars Plugin in Ansible 2021-03-10 ansible
    How to write an Action Plugin in Ansible. These let you load variables.
21. Writing a Filter Plugin in Ansible 2021-02-24 ansible
    How to write a Filter Plugin in Ansible. These let you process some data
22. Writing an Action Plugin in Ansible 2021-02-22 ansible
    How to write an Action Plugin in Ansible. These let you add custom tasks to your playbooks
23. SSL with Microstack 2021-02-17 infra openstack trying
    Microstack is Openstack in a Snap! let's add some SSL to it
24. Changing the password on kartoza/docker-osm 2021-02-10 kartoza/osm hindsight
    "docker:docker" is not acceptable
25. Using Pytest for Testing Deployments 2020-12-30 python infra using
    How to use Pytest to test deployments, batch processes, and other long-running things
26. Fun with ADO.NET 2020-12-09 VB dotnet hindsight
    Things I've figured out about ADO.NET
27. Common Dhall Tasks for Config Files 2020-12-09 dhall using
    How to do that thing you want to do in Dhall
28. Dhall for Config Files 2020-11-04 dhall using
    A quick how-to-use on generating text-based config files with the Dhall language
29. This is my first post. 2020-09-30 off-topic
    Hi hello

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