Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
I’m a Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience creating high performance server and front-end applications targeting web and mobile platforms, & today I lead a team at Formidable Labs.
> “I had a loose paragraph describing the scene with just the main points that had to be hit; how the actors carried this out was left up to them.” — Gareth Edwards, describing the experience of ad-libbing a feature film with extras who just happened to be on location at the time.I just finish…
Brandon Konkle
A simple synthesizer and sequencer that is WAY too much fun to play with.…
Brandon Konkle
I hate it when game developers take shortcuts like this. On the other hand, though, the game turned out buggy enough already - just imagine if they’d gone ahead and changed the UI!…
Brandon Konkle
A colleague and I ran into a frustrating situation this evening when transitioning a site from Apache and modwsgi to uWSGI. Django's request.is_secure() wasn't working correctly. After much Googling and shouting at the SSH console, we finally discovered the UWSGISCHEME uWSGI parameter. To…
Brandon Konkle
Over the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to dig in to Postgres 9's streaming replication. What I found was a relatively easy way to configure a system for basic replication with very impressive speed. Postgres's streaming replication is an enhancement to the log-shipping wa…
Brandon Konkle