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Surprises from Polling Kinesis

Some surprising things discovered about Amazon Kinesis while working on a stream processing software project in AWS

8 min readFeb 24, 2020

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Do or Do Not: Patterns and Antipatterns with the Try type

Exploring the Try type in software development with some commonly seen antipatterns and descriptions of more effective use.

8 min readNov 20, 2019

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Do or Do Not: Patterns and Antipatterns with the Try type

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Planning a Trip by Iteration

Your software project is more like an ocean liner than a hiker.

3 min readJun 28, 2022

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Generalized Debugging Process

A simple but very powerful approach to debugging based on the scientific method.

7 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Tightly Coupling a Service and its Config

An argument for keeping your service tightly coupled to its config data.

8 min readMar 26, 2021

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Not-So-Magic Data Binding in D3.js

I finally came to grips with how to properly use D3.js and started using it effectively.

5 min readMar 18, 2021

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Not-So-Magic Data Binding in D3.js

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How to Talk to Humans

A proposal for simple steps that can guide us to increased civility and effectiveness in online communication, inspired by Fred Rogers.

3 min readNov 24, 2020

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Authority and Structures of Power

In any power structure, there are two primary dynamics at play to hold the structure together: delegation and coercion.

5 min readOct 15, 2019

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Authority and Structures of Power

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Article Submission Guide

Quality is our top priority for articles published on Software Ascending: quality of content, quality of writing, and quality of form…

8 min readOct 15, 2019

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Article Submission Guide

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Contributing Overview

What We Are, What We Aren’t, and What We Want

2 min readOct 1, 2019

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Brian Mearns

Brian Mearns

Software Engineer since 2007 ･ Parent ･ Mediocre Runner ･ Flower and Tree Enthusiast ･ Crappy Wood Worker ･ he/him or they/them

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