This past year, I’ve been trying to get into DDR. One thing led to another, however, and instead of getting good at dancing, I ended up dissecting my soft pad instead.

We are at the end of November and with it, the final hour of all of my Heroku free dynos. When I first heard that Heroku was slashing their free tier back in August, I remember feeling a bit of a bittersweet nostalgia. Like many other folks in software, Heroku...

A while back, I discovered that Johns Hopkins publishes daily COVID case and death counts for all 50 US states. The graphs reminded me a lot of metric graphs for monitoring services, and I began to imagine a system of mirroring the data into CloudWatch and paging myself whenever they...