From spring 2021 through spring 2022, I was a Unit-18 Lecturer for UC Berkeley in the EECS department. A Unit-18 lecturer is what is often called “adjunct”; it’s not on a tenure track, isn’t part of the “Academic Senate”, and … Read more
One of my recent tasks was refining a script which exports our RDS databases’ snapshots into s3. The concept was straightforward; we would utilize the daily system snapshots of our RDS instances, and export them to one of our s3 … Read more
It feels a lot of developers online either went to a prestigious computer science program in university or are self-taught. However, not many talk about community college in those communities. It’s very much a different experience, and I was in … Read more
Last year, my team at Shopify implemented YJIT, a new Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for CRuby, which was recently upstreamed as part of Ruby 3.1. Because the CRuby codebase is implemented in C99, we also decided to implement YJIT in C99 … Read more
Sometimes you see a headline or a Youtube video “How I got into tech without a C.S. Degree” and it seems reasonable until you find out that they actually had a M.S. in Math from Stanford or similar. This is … Read more
I’ve been working at Sourcegraph for about 6 months now. During that time, I’ve mostly been writing Go, in the context of server-side development. I also gave a lightning talk on reading the Go spec at GopherCon. During this time, … Read more
2022-01-20 I’ve been using Elm since about one year back now. At the start of 2021 I began working with a client that had an existing Elm frontend code base and an early stage backend built in Elixir and Phoenix. … Read more
Date published: 1-Nov-2021 6 min read / 1635 words Author: Luciano Remes FinTech Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Tech Internship Web App API Caching Disclaimer: I did have to sign a NDA, so I can’t go too in depth on certain things. … Read more
Note – This is a true story based on my own experiences and what I’ve heard from the people involved, but for privacy, all of the names have been changed. I grew up in a “hamlet” (the administrative level below … Read more
I first entered Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early 60s, at the age of 18. I was in and out of that place for the rest of the decade. Back then, if you were young, black and had a record, … Read more