Structured Procrastination for Engineers: Use Delay to Improve Code Quality and Creativity

A repeatable method for benchmarking swap, ballooning, and cost-performance across cloud instances for memory-bound workloads.

A practical guide to swap, zRAM and tmpfs for dev laptops, Docker hosts and CI runners, with configs and tradeoffs.

A practical blueprint for turning telemetry into prioritized intelligence with enrichment, ranking, alerting, and feedback loops.

A side-by-side checklist for choosing workflow automation tools for developers, business users, or both.

A practical decision matrix for deciding when scripts should give way to a workflow automation platform.

A practical roadmap for IT reliability under tight budgets, using fleet management principles to prioritize redundancy, maintenance, observability, and runbooks.

A freight disruption playbook for automating rerouting, pricing, SLA alerts, and customer updates when corridors go down.

A deep-dive playbook for safer remote control in vehicles and IoT: rate limits, geofencing, telemetry, fail-safes, and compliance.

A practical framework for approving desktop environments and tiling WMs without creating support and onboarding headaches.

A practical governance and CI model for flagging orphaned Linux spins before niche desktop breakage reaches users.

A practical Linux memory tuning checklist for AI training, inference, and data pipelines—covering NUMA, hugepages, zram, cache, and alerts.