A surface-level look at Splunk Enterprise, The Search Processing Language, and Ponies — I hope that this is the start of many, many Splunk posts…because Splunk is a pretty big thing. I couldn’t just clone a git repository, run some out-of-the-box Google examples, and briefly explain what was going on like I had in my gRPC post. When I wrote my introductory post…

Medium is notorious for low-quality tech content, so here are gems pertaining to interview preparation, frontend web development, and cybersecurity — Using a React 16 Portal to do something cool, by David Gilbertson This article, in short, demonstrates a way to make a button that opens a separate window. That window will have the same styling as the first, and it will have access to the same fields.

Here I briefly mention a few comments people have left on this blog, then talk about some trending tech topics — My blog post about gRPC is now the third most popular article on this blog, and the most rapidly growing — at less than 2K views it probably cannot be called popular, and it certainly is not viral, but by this blog’s low standards it’s huge. …and it’s a little…

The adventure with Google Protocol Buffers continues! — The blog post about GRPC was surprisingly popular — I am not really sure why, considering how surface-level it was. Meanwhile, the similarly-named blog post about HTML was completely dismantled, roasted, and peed on by Jason Knight…but not for the reasons I expected. What I thought the post might be…

Some thoughts I had on software engineering while reading “Diary of a Med Student” — The trending topic in tech right now is “hiring freeze,” but I am writing this on Saturday — hopefully by the time I hit “publish” on Tuesday the economy will have fully recovered, Meta stock will skyrocket, and all five FAANG companies will send me fruit baskets in recognition of…

…well technically we don’t need it, but it has its use cases — I was prepared to write a long-winded post about middleware, in response to a question someone asked me at a Meetup, but I realized I had it wrong — though gRPC can be USED for middleware, the best way to describe it is as an RPC system that can serve…

After such a negative reaction to the Kiwanis website, I wanted to see if we could improve it — I received a scathing comment about the Kiwanis website I linked in a CodeX post, and that comment should probably not be discussed ad nauseam…I believe I have written no fewer than five separate blog posts in response to it, mostly just about community guidelines, constructive criticism, and that sort…

How websites like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and TechInterviewHandbook provide free content that rivals that of paid resources — I wrote an article on FreeCodeCamp called Coding Interview Prep — Free Resources to Help You Ace Your Interviews…to be completely clear, that’s what the EDITOR called it. The title may leave the reader with the false impression that I am some sort of algorithms expert, which I certainly am…

Addressing a Medium user — Blog posts about GRPC/Google Protocol Buffers, Splunk, Python…put all of that on hold, I need to address a rude comment I received on “We Need HTML.” I don’t really want to engage in a comment dialogue, since users like this tend to usually just leave something scathing and then get…