Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Using AI to write blog posts, then and now
Posted on:August 20, 2024Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.
Building Resilient APIs: Lessons Learned from a Real-World Migration (Machine Generated)
Posted on:August 20, 2024A post generated by ChatGPT to showcase the differences in how technology has progressed over the last six years
2023 review of the books I read
Posted on:January 2, 2024A look into the books I read in 2023, the goals I set and how I did.
A Look Back at my Blogging Journey
Posted on:November 13, 2023I've been blogging on and off for almost 20 years now and I wanted to quickly look back at how the content and technology has changed as well as share some numbers over the years.
Improving the sharing experience in Astro
Posted on:November 2, 2023A deep dive into how I built my first npm package, a social media sharing component for the Astro framework.
The best advice for shipping software
Posted on:October 29, 2023The best piece of advice I've ever received about building software is to ship things you're embarrassed with.
Migrating your blog from Hugo to Astro
Posted on:October 5, 2023A quick look into how you can migrate your blog from Hugo to Astro, extend your markdown content and fix any issues that come up during migration.
Building a Company Engineering Blog
Posted on:April 17, 2023Creating a company engineering blog is hard. From building to planning to encouraging engineers to write. This post walks you through how to build a company engineering blog successfully.
So, you want to start a new hobby?
Posted on:January 17, 2023A lightning talk I gave on how (not) to start a new hobby.
2022 review of the books I read
Posted on:January 5, 2023A look into the books I read in 2022, the goals I set and how I did.
On Writing More
Posted on:November 20, 2022A quick meta post about my desire to write more and how I plan to accomplish it
"As a manager, what is your ideal time spent on coding?"
Posted on:August 22, 2022So, you want to become an Engineering Manager?
Posted on:August 6, 2022Welcome to mckerlie.com
Posted on:August 2, 20222021 review of the books I read
Posted on:March 21, 20222020 review of the books I read
Posted on:January 4, 2021Meetings can be Poisonous
Posted on:December 22, 2020Explore the hidden costs of excessive meetings on productivity and employee morale, and learn effective strategies to minimize meetings and improve efficiency in the workplace.
Running an Engineering Book Club
Posted on:December 16, 2020Using Python to generate over 10,000 unique 8-bit lightsabers
Posted on:May 4, 2020A deep-dive into how I built a program that generated over 10,000 unique 8-bit lightsabers and then tweeted them daily.
Adding Cron to a Digital Ocean Droplet
Posted on:April 28, 2020A quick look into running scheduled tasks on your Digital Ocean droplet via a crontab
2019 review of the books I read
Posted on:January 1, 2020A deep dive into swear patterns at G Stock
Posted on:September 13, 20192018 review of the books I read
Posted on:January 1, 2019Dealing with Web Adventures of Web Applications (Machine Generated)
Posted on:August 21, 2018Technical React Apps A Project in A REST Data Restorement and Project Documents with Search (Machine Generated)
Posted on:August 21, 2018