Hello, World!

Many people buy domains for their impulsive ideas, and there's one that I bought in 2009 when I was sitting at WWDC with Jeff Buck thinking about making some online services using Nu. We didn't do anything with it then, but a few years later Danielle Arvanitis helped me work up a proposal for something that other people eventually built as sandstorm.io and I went to work at Google. Now I finally have a use for it.

I'm speaking tonight at the gRPC Meetup in Sunnyvale. Thanks to Larry and the gRPC team for hosting me!

gRPC isn’t just for internal services! More and more API consumers are getting up to speed using gRPC APIs, and with transcoding and AIP-127, gRPC can be used to build great HTTP/JSON APIs. But most API management products focus on HTTP/JSON APIs and address gRPC as an afterthought (if at all), and gRPC service meshes generally don’t address needs of external consumers like API key issuing and verification.

Recently Marsh Gardiner got me interested in using Pinboard to track bookmarks. I quickly realized that I could use it to replace the nascent and undeveloped bookmark tracking that I was adding to this site, and also that with the Pinboard API, I could get the best of both: easy input and management of bookmarks using Pinboard and its many associated third-party tools, and customized presentation and discussions of bookmarks that I import.

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What are you listening to? Here's a reflection of my listening habits in my Spotify Discover Weekly list. Today you'll see lots of DHH (Desi hip hop); I am still riding a wave from our son Michael's Hindu wedding last summer.