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A reflection upon my career to date – a more poetic take on my CV than the prose of my resumé – as viewed through the lens of the JavaScript langauge .

I’d been having trouble getting /etc/hosts to consistently resolve a DNS entry on OS X in all the ways that are are important to me.

Sure, there was a bit of data munging & aggregation going on, but it was essentially just a pub/sub pass-thru … so why couldn’t the Server keep up?

Rather than try and write it all up as a single Blog Post, I’ve created a Git repo with all of my learnings.

When we stop building Ruby from source every time, we also stop auto-installing the binary dependencies.

Our library of choice is bluebird, which is – as it claims – a highly performant implementation of the Promises/A+ standard.

Apparently at some point on Tuesday, GitHub had switched something over in its SSL termination. Until I fix this, my blog is kinda toast.

A rather odd mix of side-projects and Ops-related chaos.

In my opinion, this code snippet captures the most powerful aspects of ECMAScript.