Greg Hurrell
@greg.hurrell.net
Staff Engineer at Datadog, Ex-@github.com, Ex-Facebook
Up migrations: yay!
Down migrations: boo!
Down migrations: boo!
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Up migrations: yay!
Down migrations: boo!
Down migrations: boo!
You're absolutely right!
August 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
You're absolutely right!
New blog post wincent.dev/blog/forges
Git forges
How hard can it be to build a good code review platform? It's been done before, after all, and more than once!
wincent.dev
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New blog post wincent.dev/blog/forges
I still miss Phabricator
August 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I still miss Phabricator
New blog post just dropped wincent.dev/blog/security
Security
Musings on how terribly insecure doing anything with computers is.
wincent.dev
July 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New blog post just dropped wincent.dev/blog/security
Working with AI agents is like working with an extremely fast, dumb coworker who has a prodigious but unreliable memory, and is incredibly eager to please but also entirely unconcerned with getting things right.
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Working with AI agents is like working with an extremely fast, dumb coworker who has a prodigious but unreliable memory, and is incredibly eager to please but also entirely unconcerned with getting things right.
Blog post on some of the things we've been up to in the Continuous Profiler at Datadog www.datadoghq.com/blog/profili...
Making profiling visualizations accessible to engineers at all levels
Learn how new features in Continuous Profiler make it even easier to draw insights from profiling data.
www.datadoghq.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Blog post on some of the things we've been up to in the Continuous Profiler at Datadog www.datadoghq.com/blog/profili...
Software supply chain attacks. The stuff of nightmares.
March 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Software supply chain attacks. The stuff of nightmares.
New screencast just dropped — how to become a 10x devloper in Neovim youtu.be/89A0IMvB6z8
Become a Neovim 10x Devloper with foldexpr
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New screencast just dropped — how to become a 10x devloper in Neovim youtu.be/89A0IMvB6z8
New Neovim screencast just dropped — nvim-cmp configuration taken too far: OCD (Obsessive Completion Disorder) youtu.be/gK31IVy0Gp0
nvim-cmp configuration taken too far
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
youtu.be
January 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New Neovim screencast just dropped — nvim-cmp configuration taken too far: OCD (Obsessive Completion Disorder) youtu.be/gK31IVy0Gp0
Exactly my kind of nerdery www.codingfont.com
www.codingfont.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Exactly my kind of nerdery www.codingfont.com
Free will is not the only problem wincent.dev/blog/free-will
Free will is not the only problem
Free will is not the only problem
wincent.dev
November 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Free will is not the only problem wincent.dev/blog/free-will
Breaking the drought (1 year after posting my last screencast) — this time, using some advanced tmux tricks in order to produce a custom "copy mode" experience youtu.be/Nh-xw1mCBTg
Advanced tmux: custom copy mode HOW-TO
YouTube video by Greg Hurrell
youtu.be
November 1, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Breaking the drought (1 year after posting my last screencast) — this time, using some advanced tmux tricks in order to produce a custom "copy mode" experience youtu.be/Nh-xw1mCBTg
Resigned from GitHub. Joining Datadog.
Observability is the new version control.
Observability is the new version control.
May 27, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Resigned from GitHub. Joining Datadog.
Observability is the new version control.
Observability is the new version control.
Network Solutions: a masterclass in UI dark patterns
February 22, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Network Solutions: a masterclass in UI dark patterns
Important disclaimer: tastiness measured from perspective of a human being, not a star-eating megaorganism.
February 13, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Important disclaimer: tastiness measured from perspective of a human being, not a star-eating megaorganism.
Recipe websites: so universally terrible.
February 9, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Recipe websites: so universally terrible.
Feels like the ability to edit posts should be table stakes.
February 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Feels like the ability to edit posts should be table stakes.
Literally unplayable
February 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Literally unplayable
Waiting for all the bad things of Twitter/X to manifest themselves here.
February 8, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Waiting for all the bad things of Twitter/X to manifest themselves here.
Talk about a platform with an uncertain future...
February 7, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Talk about a platform with an uncertain future...