words on sand

from shri at drone-ah.com

26 Apr 2025

A lone triangle vs the universe

1,506 words, ~6 min read

I’ve been unwell for a few months which has left me with a great deal of fatigue and limited ability to be …

12 Feb 2025

Starting Again

374 words, ~1 min read

Most of you know that I ran my own company for fifteen years, and at one point it had around 30 people in five different …

22 Jan 2025

Will A.I kill America?

304 words, ~1 min read

Will $500,000,000,000 in AI investment kill America?

Project Stargate: $500,000,000,000(i.e. $500b, the GDP of …

21 Jan 2025

There are no best practices

266 words, ~1 min read

I was watching a video by Dave Thomas (one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer) where he explains that the idea …

12 Dec 2024

Agile, the hope killer!

204 words, ~0 min read

Two weeks into mapping out a project, I realised that we’d underestimated the lead-time. We’d have to push …

02 Aug 2024

Not Afraid

128 words, ~0 min read

There once was a boy,
And the boy was not afraid.

He looked out at the world,
Everywhere he looked,
Everyone he knew, …

26 Jul 2024

Limit Java Memory Globally

55 words, ~0 min read

Java can be greedy with RAM. By default, it grabs up to half your system memory, which is fine for servers—but annoying …

17 Jul 2024

Microservices vs Monolith: Real World Tradeoffs

428 words, ~1 min read

When starting a new backend system for a contract I was on, one of the early decisions I had to make was whether to lean …

03 Jan 2024

A Half Written Poem

93 words, ~0 min read

In the middle of the night,
When the moon was gone.

The gentle breeze caressed my face,
Pregnant with salt, cool to …

28 Dec 2023

Compassion

704 words, ~2 min read

When you think about corporations and their culture, it’s unlikely that compassion is at the top of the list. …