Personal articles and profile of Matt DeKreyhttps://dekrey.net/en-ushttps://dekrey.net/articles/scalable-git-branching-model-revisited/https://dekrey.net/articles/scalable-git-branching-model-revisited/Explanation of and updates to the Scaled Git Branching ModelWed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-10-15T12:15:40/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-10-15T12:15:40/I’ve recently joined Cartwheel and have been asked to be VP of Engineering! I’m excited for the opportunity to work on a challenging part of...Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:15:40 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/engineering-culture-interviews/https://dekrey.net/articles/engineering-culture-interviews/Note: This is a repost of my Engineering Culture: Interviews article from when I was Principle Architect at Principle Studios. My process has changed (there...Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-07-20T13:42:35/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-07-20T13:42:35/With a heavy heart I get to announce that I’m no longer at Principle Studios or Shift Paradigm. To all my friends and colleagues who...Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:42:35 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-06-18T12:55:15/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-06-18T12:55:15/I’ve been enjoying writing what I’m calling meta-tests: tests that verify existence/correctness of other code. These handful of lines produce almost 60 test cases at...Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:55:15 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/git-hardening-branches/https://dekrey.net/articles/git-hardening-branches/The principle of Isolation until Finalized from the Scaled Git Flow branching model is new for many developers: between trunk-based development, GitFlow, and standard Continuous...Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-05-06T23:21:51/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-05-06T23:21:51/Meta has spent $30B on hardware alone for its AI models. Consider the ROI before you dive into generative AI; you’re either going to spend...Mon, 06 May 2024 23:21:51 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-05-03T00:19:15/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-05-03T00:19:15/Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition....Fri, 03 May 2024 00:19:15 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-24T12:41:16/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-24T12:41:16/The FTC announced their rule to ban non-competes!This will become effective 120 days after publication in the Federal Register - so we don’t have a...Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:41:16 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-23T11:32:53/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-23T11:32:53/Markdown feels like the epitome of unstructured data; it’s really unfortunate that the handful of symbols make it feel too arcane for average users....Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:32:53 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-21T23:14:33/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-21T23:14:33/Finally got my RSS feed corrected at https://dekrey.net/rss.xml...Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:14:33 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-21T22:45:11/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-21T22:45:11/Awesome tool by KirillOsenkov at quickinfo.io (demo) for better quick uses like Google, but without the ads. Source code available, too!...Sun, 21 Apr 2024 22:45:11 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-20T17:55:54/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-20T17:55:54/Thanks to a random TikTok, I learned about these CISA TableTop exercise packages; I’m going to have to try these....Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:55:54 GMThttps://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-20T14:35:45/https://dekrey.net/thoughts/2024-04-20T14:35:45/The FTC is considering banning non-competition agreements later this week!...Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:35:45 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/interviews/https://dekrey.net/articles/interviews/Note: This article as originally published on the Principle Studios blog. Now that Principle Studios is part of Shift Paradigm, I have republished the article...Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/make-it-easy-to-do-the-right-thing/https://dekrey.net/articles/make-it-easy-to-do-the-right-thing/Generally speaking, employees want to be good at their jobs. We like to know that the people around us can depend on us to get...Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/webgl-particles/https://dekrey.net/articles/webgl-particles/I started out my career in video games, but recently I’ve feeling the pull to play around again. It’s been interesting re-learning so much of...Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/aws-security-basics/https://dekrey.net/articles/aws-security-basics/I was asked recently what my security recommendations would be for an AWS account. I’m not in infosec personally, so this is definitely not a...Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/model-view-star/https://dekrey.net/articles/model-view-star/Many developers have heard of MV-* design patterns (most commonly MVC), but most don’t know the purpose - or most of the alternatives - to...Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/pure-react-components/https://dekrey.net/articles/pure-react-components/I recommend to my teams that they use “pure react components” - but, like usual, I’ve realized that I use the term a bit differently...Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/automating-helm-via-github-actions/https://dekrey.net/articles/automating-helm-via-github-actions/When writing my last blog post, I really wanted to share a draft of it (and not just the source code) before publishing. To do...Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/nextjs-dekrey-dot-net/https://dekrey.net/articles/nextjs-dekrey-dot-net/As previously mentioned, I don’t like maintenance. Gatsby was working well for me, so why did I want to change? Wait, was it working well...Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/serverless-games/https://dekrey.net/articles/serverless-games/I enjoy classical games. Simple rules that combine in interesting ways are the definitions of “emergent gameplay” that the games industry strives for in modern...Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/gatsby-dekrey-dot-net/https://dekrey.net/articles/gatsby-dekrey-dot-net/I don’t like maintenance. I prefer to make things that can just continue to run on their own and don’t require constant fixing or upkeep....Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/error-handling/https://dekrey.net/articles/error-handling/Designing an API is not an easy thing. You need to make it easy to use. You want to make it provide all the information...Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/automated-git-refactorings/https://dekrey.net/articles/automated-git-refactorings/Recently, my team decided to implement Prettier on our TypeScript code base. When we started our greenfield project more than a year ago, we started...Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/scaled-git-flow/https://dekrey.net/articles/scaled-git-flow/A comprehensive git branching strategy that scales up or down with the needs of the project.Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/gitflow-rant/https://dekrey.net/articles/gitflow-rant/As a consultant for the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on many different types of software projects, including marketing sites, mobile...Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dekrey.net/articles/grammar-of-programming/https://dekrey.net/articles/grammar-of-programming/The software industry is always learning, which is one of the reasons why software is both my job and my hobby. Many of us professionals...Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT