Converting iMessage Stickers, Animoji, and Memoji to Slackmoji (Slack Emoji)

With the impending shutdown of HipChat (February 2019), my team has been working hard on migrating everything over to Slack. Why not have some fun while we're at it? Slackmoji Firstly, what is Slackmoji? Slackmoji (the word) refers to Slack + emoji — namely, the custom emoji you can add to your Slack account. It adds a bit of color and personality to the default Slack experience. Since I work in technology and the web, my set of Slackmoji tends to be Mac/Web/Browser-centric.
Playlist: Best of P.O.D.

I’ve been a fan of P.O.D. since the 90s, and I’ve continued to follow them throughout their career. This is a collection of my favorite tracks into a single playlist. Playlist .__h_apple_music.card { background-color: rgb(248, 248, 250); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "SF Pro Text", "San Francisco", -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); padding: 0; margin-bottom: 30px; } .__h_apple_music.card .card-body { position: relative; padding: 10px 10px 10px; padding-bottom: 56.
Understanding Trust in Your Infrastructure

Only a tiny fraction of the code your application runs was written by you or your team. How do you know you can trust the code that was written by other people? Where would you even start? This piece is part of a larger series on Engineering for Site Reliability, specifically balancing stability against the edge of technology. What do I mean by “trust”? Movies and TV shows have given us a version of trust which essentially boils down to “Do you trust me?
The Hiring Process, Part I

Over my career, my job title has typically fallen into the baskets of: Front-End Web Developer, Software Engineer, or DevOps/SRE. I’ve done a lot of interviewing to try and find the right people to join the teams I’ve worked on, and I thought it might be helpful to share part of my process. NOTE: I want to start by stating that what is written here are my own thoughts, and not representative of any past or current employer. Remastered?
Serving Bandwidth-Friendly Video with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

While YouTube is free (as in money) to use, the cost is paid in terms of privacy and advertising analytics. So I've decided to investigate self-hosting my video content. The Cost of YouTube With YouTube, you sacrifice privacy in favor of cost. YouTube is the very best at what they do (serve video to all resolutions and bandwidths), and they are backed by Google who is the very best at what they do (collect data in order to facilitate selling a primed audience to advertisers).