About The Author

My name’s Chris. I’m a Senior Software Engineer, living in (often) sunny, (always) beachy Santa Monica, CA.

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking (especially grilling), photography, gaming, and golf, presented in descending order of aptitude.

This blog is hosted on NixOS.

Rapid-fire luke-warm takes

The JVM is fine and more important in modern software than Hackernews would have you think.
- Hackernews’s comment section is awful.
ASP.NET is a more batteries-included Servlet.
- Spring is important but massively overcomplicated.
Async I/O isn’t always the answer.
Emacs over vi.
Typescript (the language) is great. JavaScript (the ecosystem and mindset) isn’t.

The views and opinions on this blog don’t reflect that of my employer, only mine. Not that these mean anything.