Latest / May 4, 2026
7 posts from engineering leaders published May 4, 2026, by Kyle Kingsbury, Aja Hammerly, Salvatore Sanfilippo and 2 more.
This has been bugging me for years: you often run a JVM by a shell script wrapper, then want to jstack it to figure out what it’s doing, but can’t figure out what PID to ask for. Running jps gives remarkably unhelpful output, especially for tools like Leiningen. I wrote a hacky…
The simple truth is that I don’t know what the future of DevRel is. I have some ideas, but we’re all on an AI journey together, and sometimes it seems like the tech changes every day. In that world I’m a bit suspicious of anyone who claims to know the future, unless they have a…
The simple truth is that I don’t know what the future of DevRel is. I have some ideas, but we’re all on an AI journey together, and sometimes it seems like the tech changes every day. In that world I’m a bit suspicious of anyone who claims to know the future, unless they have a…
The simple truth is that I don’t know what the future of DevRel is. I have some ideas, but we’re all on an AI journey together, and sometimes it seems like the tech changes every day. In that world I’m a bit suspicious of anyone who claims to know the future, unless they have a…
I started working on the new Array data type for Redis in the first days of January. The PR landed the repository only now, so this code was cooked for four months. I worked at the implementation kinda part time (kinda because many weeks were actually full time, sometimes to…
I spent a lot of time outside in April. The first two weekends I did long bike rides: from Brooklyn to Tarrytown along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail , and out to Rockaway Beach via the Marine Parkway Bridge & Cross Bay Memorial Bridge. Then, I ran the Brooklyn Experience Half…
A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette ( here as CSS ). If I wanted a light blue I could just use blue-100 and if I didn’t like it maybe try blue-200 or…