travis jeffery
who:
I work at Confluent hacking on Kafka, its streaming platform, and its cloud service. Previously, I worked at Segment and Basecamp.
I write and maintain open-source software, namely: Jocko, Timecop, Mocha, ClangFormat for Xcode, and more on GitHub.
Want to reach me? Send me an email or message me on Twitter.
most recent posts:
- I'll take pkg over internal 01/11/19
- Keep passwords and secrets out of your logs with Go 04/06/18
- The best books I read in 2017 01/02/18
- “username or password incorrect” is bullshit 21/12/17
- Hiring woes: the costs of bad hires and how to avoid them 04/10/17
- Manage Datadog with Terraform 07/09/17
- How to persuade in online discussions 14/06/17
- Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper 19/01/17
- EC2’S magical address to get instance metadata 29/11/16
- How Kafka’s Storage Internals Work 13/10/16
and all posts by category:
engineering:
communication:
kafka:
- Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper 19/01/17
- How Kafka’s Storage Internals Work 13/10/16
- Using Golang and JSON for Kafka Consumption With High Throughput 09/05/16
ops:
- Keep passwords and secrets out of your logs with Go 04/06/18
- Manage Datadog with Terraform 07/09/17
- EC2’S magical address to get instance metadata 29/11/16
- Monitoring with InfluxData's TICK stack 23/09/16
- Techniques to Achieve High Write Throughput With Elasticsearch 08/06/16
- SSH into EC2 instance with instance ID 30/11/15
- Outbound connections from Docker with VirtualBox not working? 17/11/15
- Building infrastructure with Docker, AWS ECS, and Hashicorp's Terraform 07/10/15
- Piping into a Docker container 25/09/15
open source:
- Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper 19/01/17
- Graphing Kafka offset lags with StatsD 26/03/16
- Library and Lambda function to show your Rdio heavy rotation on your website 24/10/15
- Animated nyan cat in the terminal 25/06/15
- NSURLSession and NSOperationQueue working together = TRVSURLSessionOperation 17/06/14
- Added support for promises in mocha v1.18.0 14/03/14
- Jasmine-jQuery v2 adding support for Jasmine v2 13/01/14
- errors.js: client side errors object 30/03/12
go:
- I'll take pkg over internal 01/11/19
- Keep passwords and secrets out of your logs with Go 04/06/18
- Animated nyan cat in the terminal 25/06/15
vim:
- Find Rails partial references in Vim 23/02/12
- Vim and the power of :g 17/02/12
- Hide comments with Vim folding 17/01/12
- Saving files in nonexistent directories with Vim 28/11/11
- Markdown headers in Vim 18/11/11
- M-x occur for Vim 31/10/11
javascript:
- Building a custom Zendesk app 10/11/15
- Library and Lambda function to show your Rdio heavy rotation on your website 24/10/15
- Error responses on Node.js with Koa 21/10/15
- Added support for promises in mocha v1.18.0 14/03/14
- Jasmine-jQuery v2 adding support for Jasmine v2 13/01/14
- Testing JavaScript projects with Grunt, Jasmine, and JSHint 03/09/13
- How-to test starting Backbone's history 16/04/12
- errors.js: client side errors object 30/03/12
- What is this? I don't even... bind this to your object in JavaScript! 29/03/12
- JavaScript conditional assignment 20/03/12
- Building regexps in JavaScript 05/01/12
git:
- `git author sha`: get author info for a given sha in git 05/10/13
- Quick staging and other file operations in git 01/11/12
- Using git's include for private configuration information (like github tokens) 09/03/12
- Search a git repo like a ninja 02/02/12
- Keeping your git repo clean of .orig files! 03/12/11
- Mess up a rebase? Reflog your problems away 31/10/11
tools:
- Modern grep 09/02/12
rails:
- Rendering errors with JSON and Rails 27/04/12
- Generate Rails migrations that automagically add your change 16/03/12
- Find Rails partial references in Vim 23/02/12
ruby:
ios:
- NSURLSession and NSOperationQueue working together = TRVSURLSessionOperation 17/06/14
- Writing @ prefixed macros 10/01/14
- My Xcode plug-in to have Clang format/style your code using the new clang-format 07/01/14
- Text processing with NSLinguisticTagger: implementing Writer Pro's syntax control 25/12/13
- Preventing 'IB auto generated at build time for view with fixed frame' when using Auto Layout 28/11/13
- Using UIImage, UIColor, UIFont Code on Mac OS X 02/11/13
- Using TextKit to put an image in a text view 20/10/13
- How to know when a UIScrollView (includes UITableView, UICollectionView) finished scrolling 19/10/13
- Server-sent event event source API client in ObjC for iOS and Mac using NSURLSession 12/10/13
- Async testing with Xcode and any testing framework such as XCTest, SenTestingKit, Expecta, etc. 11/10/13
- Xcode attaching to app running in simulator not working 03/10/13
- Basic authentication with AFNetworking 2 27/09/13
- Scroll to the bottom of a UICollectionView 19/09/13
- Getting the status bar's height in iOS 06/05/13
- Converting AVFoundation's power levels to/from logarithmic and linear scale 08/02/13
- Notify yourself of successful/failed Xcode builds by email 17/01/13
- Overriding UIViewController's view property, done right 28/12/12
- Making Custom Transitions Between UIViewControllers 22/10/12
- iOS how-to: mask and shadow views 06/08/12
- Adding a drop shadow to a table view 23/07/12
- Getting the index path of a table view cell via a subview event 22/07/12
work journal:
- Re-architecting Segment's API 25/03/15
segment:
- Re-architecting Segment's API 25/03/15
google chrome:
- Disable microphone muting when typing in Google+ Hangouts 24/09/13
- When Google Chrome won't open iTunes links 04/06/13
- Web Inspector's new dock to right feature 01/04/12
books:
- The best books I read in 2017 01/02/18
design:
mac:
- How to hide Chrome's notification icon in the menu bar 24/07/14
- URL linking in a non-editable NSTextView 09/11/13
- Installing Ruby with rbenv and Homebrew on OS X Mavericks 24/06/13
zsh:
- Alias in ZSH with completion 08/08/12
- ZSH's extended glob breaking commands 30/01/12