Patrick BrownHow to Deploy a Discord Bot on KubernetesScope: Covers deployment of an existing Discord bot to Kubernetes. Does not cover bot development nor Kubernetes cluster setup nor basics.Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
Patrick BrownHow to Optimize for Safari ReaderGetting your blog post to play nicely with Safari Reader—my preferred way of consuming blogs—isn’t always obvious. This post documents my…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
Patrick BrownQuasars: Paving the way to KubernetesThere’s been some significant infrastructure changes under the hood of Quasars and I wanted to talk about them here.Feb 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019
Patrick BrownDon’t assign static references to instance method calls in JavaAssigning a static reference to an instance method call could be perilous. Let’s take a look at an example Java class to examine why.Jan 28, 20196Jan 28, 20196
Patrick BrownHow Quasa.rs utilizes Blue/Green DeploymentsI am the creator and administrator of quasa.rs, a social link-sharing web application (like reddit or…Jan 19, 2019Jan 19, 2019
Patrick BrownAn Autodidact’s Degree in Computer ScienceSynthesizing a full major out of MIT’s OpenCourseWareJan 19, 20191Jan 19, 20191
Patrick BrownFreeze Your Constants in RubyYears ago I was working on a very large Ruby on Rails codebase that used constants to hold lists of credit card transaction states. For…Jan 12, 2019Jan 12, 2019
Patrick BrownDigits of PiHow likely it is for each digit of pi to appear? Let’s find out by charting the digits of pi into a frequency graph.Oct 17, 2017Oct 17, 2017
Patrick BrownAfter 5 years of Dvorak, I am switching back to Qwerty.In 2012 I, with two other nerdy roommates, switched to Dvorak. Five years later (four of them spent as a Software Engineer) I am switching…Jun 28, 201713Jun 28, 201713