Last month, Noah and I performed what is commonly called an act of heroic programming: We had a demo due, and we stayed up until 4 am — 2 nights in a row — to finish the work. We came out the other end bleary eyed, but triumphant; the demo was on time, the client was happy, and some might…

It is a dark winter day at your desk in Maine and your boss gets back from sunny California and says “Docker is the best, we need to start using this for everything!”. You internally groan because you just got all the infrastructure working correctly, but you start frantically searching how to…

Improving the logic-to-boilerplate ratio of asynchronous action definitions.

Hey there, I’m Chris and I’m employee #4 at Apsis Labs. I joined a half a year ago and I’m loving it. I work from Syracuse, NY (the photo above is from a few hours north on Cranberry Lake in the Adirondacks).

If I’m completely honest, I never meant to become a job creator (that’s what we call ourselves, it was in the pamphlet). I’ve had a lot of career aspirations in my life: writer, designer, cowboy; whatever it was, they’ve all come with some kind of shape: some way to describe the job in a social…