Recent Posts

• My typical shell.nix file
  March 21, 2026
  I use nix to manage packages on macOS and on Linux (nixOS). This is for my future self more than anything to document my "ideal" `shell.nix` file.
• MacBook Neo
  March 19, 2026
  Any iPad + a keyboard case makes zero sense compared to the Neo.
• nixpkgs is a treasure
  May 10, 2024
  Nix and NixOS continue to be the best way to manage and build software that I've found.
• Lessons learned from integrating OpenAI into a Grafana data source
  July 25, 2023
  I wrote over on the Grafana blog about a few lessons or observations we learned while integrating OpenAI into the ADX data source. It's my first post on the Grafana blog and I'm pretty excited, so check it out!
• Better scripting with gh
  July 22, 2023
  I've become a big fan of the gh CLI tool from Github. It has eliminated the need for me to manage developer tokens for my scripts.
• End of an era
  June 15, 2023
  Today I removed two of my most-used apps on my phone, Apollo and Tweetbot. It feels like the end of an era.
• Hacking on Grafana with Web Assembly
  August 19, 2022
  Grafana had a hack week this past week and I opted to work on WebAssembly(WASM)-related things. My vague original idea was to see if I could compile the Grafana server for WASM.
• New workstation
  May 2, 2022
  I detail my new workstation build featuring the Intel i5-12600k.
• 👋 Sparkbox
  April 1, 2022
  I can’t believe I’m writing this but after 9 and a half years today is my last day at Sparkbox.
• Thirty five
  March 3, 2022
  It's been 5 years since I wrote 'Thirty'. So now I have to come up with 35 things as I turned 35 yesterday.