Nat Bennett

Some have called them a software engineer. They've worked on Cloud Foundry and a few other large systems. They're also a writer, photographer, and speaker.

Mere Being 016 - August - Iron Supplements, Digestion, Love

“I knew you’d love this.” Is there anything more delicious? One of my favorite sensations of this meme age — a friend was scrolling, saw something, and thought of you.

Pivots don't start enough businesses

I’m going to try to convince you to start a company — especially if you’re a Pivot.

How team assignment worked at Pivotal (at least on Cloud Foundry)

Why Pivotal engineers changed teams so often, and how those changes happened

Testing Transactions in Elixir

My favorite thing about this test is that it's not a test for whether these operations are happening inside of a transition. It might actually be better to do this with the first request as a subquery inside the insert, and this test will happily accept that solution.

Man, I miss pairing

I miss being able to do that raw volume of work. I miss the feeling of being on a team that pairs. The level of collaboration skill. The pace.

Mere Being 015 - July - urban grocery stores, document editors, the Weird Dude election

There are people trying to get us back to that disaster vibe – but – I dunno – society-as-a-whole has escaped TheGlobalChatroomSlashAnxietyReflectionMatrix and I think everyone's chilled out a lot.