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Life hacks

I was thinking about a couple of little things that have made my life a lot better in the last year and I figured I’d share: Buying cheese powder I love mac & cheese, particularly Annie’s sharp cheddar. However, 1) they always give too many noodles and not enough cheese and 2) Annie’s switched overContinue reading “Life hacks”

How to Skylark – the class

I’ve heard a lot of users say they want a more comprehensive introduction to writing build extensions for Bazel (aka, Skylark). One of my friends has been working on Google Classroom and they just launched, so I created a build extensions crash course. I haven’t written much content yet (and I don’t understand exactly howContinue reading “How to Skylark – the class”

Stamping your builds

By default, Bazel tries not to include anything about the system state in build outputs. However, released binaries and libraries often want to include something like the version they were built at or the branch or tag they came from. To reconcile this, Bazel has an option called the workspace status command. This command isContinue reading “Stamping your builds”

Using secrets with Google AppEngine

For side project #4323194 (implement a chrome extension that looks like this: 👂 and turns red when someone mentions you on GitHub), I needed to implement oauth from AppEngine to GitHub. As I’ve mentioned before, oauth is my nemesis, but for this project there didn’t seem to be a great way around it. It actuallyContinue reading “Using secrets with Google AppEngine”

Low-fat Skylark rules – saving memory with depsets

In my previous post on aspects, I used a Bazel aspect to generate a simple Makefile for a project. In particular, I passed a list of .o files up the tree like so: dotos = [ctx.label.name + “.o”] for dep in ctx.rule.attr.deps: # Create a new array by concatenating this .o with all previous .o’s.Continue reading “Low-fat Skylark rules – saving memory with depsets”

9 years of blogging have totally been worth it

Worth of Web is kind of a neat site: Oh well. It’s been worth it to me.

Aspects: the fan-fic of build rules

Aspects are a feature of Bazel that are basically like fan-fic, if build rules were stories: aspects let you add features that require intimate knowledge of the build graph, but that that the rule maintainer would never want to add. For example, let’s say we want to be able to generate Makefiles from a BazelContinue reading “Aspects: the fan-fic of build rules”

That’s senior programmer to you, buddy

After about a decade of professional programming, I have finally gotten promoted. For the first time. This is a weird industry. Regardless, I am now a “Senior Software Engineer.” Woo! Thinking about it, this has been a goal of mine for a long time. Now that I’ve achieved it, I’m not sure what’s next. “…andContinue reading “That’s senior programmer to you, buddy”

The Haunted Homesteader

Andrew and I have always loved old places. Optimally, we’d like to live in a wizard’s tower on top of a mountain. However, we’d be willing to settle for a castle with a thousand acres of land. More realistically, we’d like an old place with a couple of acres. That you can reach without aContinue reading “The Haunted Homesteader”

Recruiting review

Just got this message from a recruiter: I know I recently reached out to you, but seriously, you’re the cat’s meow and I can see you being the perfect fit for [company]. Your current experience at Google is spot on with what our Talent Team is looking for. [Description of company] If I am wayContinue reading “Recruiting review”