I'm Ryan Olds, a Staff Software Engineer telecommuting from Eugene, OR. I spend most of my time working on highly available software applications, gaming (board & video), learning saxophone, hiking & backpacking, and living life with an awesome wife & cats.
As this blog grows it will become an assortment of posts about personal projects, things I've found noteworthy, reviews of games, and random musings.
Screeps after one year
It's been a crazy couple of years. One of the things that have helped me keep my sanity is Screeps, an MMO for programmers.
👓 Read More 📝 2022-01-26T22:16:19ZOnboarding developers quickly
Onboarding developers can require a significant amount of time, but it doesn't have to. This article goes over a minimal set of tools that provide a uniform developer environment and workflow for all major operating systems.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-04-06T19:09:00ZVisibility is Mission Critical
Quality logs make issue investigation, exploration, and iterative system improvements much easier. Without logs, it's pretty much impossible to reason about what your service is doing or has done.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-02-12T00:26:27ZRSS Feeds with Go's text/template
Discusses implementing OpenGraph and Twitter tags. Detailed overview of implementing an RSS feed using Go's `text/template`.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-01-22T00:16:19ZEfficient HTTP caching
Caching related HTTP headers are critical to high performance websites. Learn about HTTP headers, requests, responses and how to avoid unneccary requests to your site.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-01-04T01:27:25ZBlogging with Go, Markdown, and AWS
A lot can be done with a little Go code, Markdown, and AWS. Reviews the architecture of the code used to serve this blog.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-01-02T01:42:42ZHappy New Year!
After a few weeks working part-time on Pedantic Orderliness, I'm finally to the point of writing actual content.
👓 Read More 📝 2019-01-01T03:23:09Z