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Brendan O'Leary

Brendan is the problem. Hi. He's the problem it's me.

Using a katana to migrate my website

Using a katana to migrate my website

For years, I coded my website as a static site generated amalgam. While I started from the base VuePress as a building block – which is great, by the way – I also spent far too much time coding fun things by hand. While these things (like hidden keyboard shortcuts) are fun,

Building in the open, again

Building in the open, again

As promised in a few of my previous posts, I wanted to write more not only about my career until now, but about where I'm going next – and why I chose this particular course over any other. I want to avoid burying the lede too much, so I'm thrilled to

The original GitLab Customer Success team at Summit 2018 in Capetown, South Africa

What I learned at GitLab that I don't want to forget

After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I'm so proud of what we built—and I'm still proud and awed by

Leaving GitLab

Leaving GitLab

After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time here. I'm so proud of what we built—and I'm still proud and awed by

AI-Generated blog on security engineering.

AI-Generated blog on security engineering.

This blog was automatically generated using chat.openai.com and the prompt "Write a blog about security engineering and DevSecOps and why it is the next big thing in sofware engineering" Security engineering and DevSecOps are rapidly becoming the next big thing in software engineering, and for good reason. In

How to Learn Anything

How to Learn Anything

How did you learn X? (technology or otherwise) Plenty of times, I get asked: "How did you learn X." X could be anything, typically technology related. How did you learn HTML? How did you learn JavaScript? How did you learn Excel? How did you learn PowerPoint? There are two main

What makes a great tech talk?

What makes a great tech talk?

As someone who spends a reasonable amount of time writing, rehearsing, and giving tech talks, I often find folks new to speaking about tech asking me: how do you do it? How do you know that you will be able to write and give an excellent tech talk? The simple