I’ve found that using sbt behind an NTLM proxy at work doesn’t quite work as advertised. According to the documentation, all you need to set is

tl;dr Creating a custom Hue app is fun and easy.

Working with Hadoop at my day job is exciting. There is a lot of velocity in the ecosystem and constant improvement in the tools we use.

I’ve been having issues with stability with my cable internet connection at home. It seemed as though when it got colder, the connection would be more flaky - especially when I really wanted to finish my Dr. Who Netflix binge.

Recently I was looking to improve the performance of a Python 2.5 script that compares two files line by line. What I found interesting was the huge performance improvements I saw with just a few tweaks. I’ve simplified the problem to just reading the file and updating a counter, to keep things simple.