On Technical Interviews This post was going to be about technical interviews, and how they're broken in our industry. Broken, unhelpful, considered harmful, in some obvious and not so obvious ways. But that's not what this
writing How I Use Bear Notes Talking about my note taking process with Bear Writer in the context of being a knowledge worker. This is what my setup/process looks like right now.
Scientific Method Over Anecdotal Evidence in Technology Choices Note: This was originally posted as a comment on Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming A friend sent me your article, and I had replied to him with this, telling him what I think (he
Exploit vs. Explore I recently started listening to the audio book Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, and it has been very good. There are
Abstract Syntax Trees in JavaScript An Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), is a powerful concept in computer science. It is something that allows you to do some interesting things, especially in JavaScript, that you may not have thought possible.
Things Great Engineering Managers Do Reacts quickly, and decisively. Has a leadership philosophy. Has thought about it, a lot. Can speak at length about it. Is passionate about engineering. Is passoniate about management. Understands the intersection of the
Noisy Brains and Creative Discipline Sometimes, ok, a lot. I have a hard time focusing on creative endeavors. As Ze Frank, says in his 'Brain Crack' episode: When I get an idea, even a bad one, I try
Creating a GIF Gallery with Panamax And Then There Was the GIF The Internet would be nowhere without the GIF. Entire sites, whole server farms, are dedicated to serving you the perfect GIF. They make everyone happy. or sad.
The Docker PaaS, Octohost The Many Armed Docker PaaS I've been delving into Docker the last few months. One of the many projects that have sprung up around Docker, is a PaaS, called Octohost.1 Like a
This Is Why I Believe the Unix Philosophy Is Inherently Right This is why I believe the Unix philosophy is inherently right: programs shouldn’t be vague, squishy things that grow in scope over time and are never really finished. A program should do
Drift Drift is both a state and a time. The high volume of information consumption has forced my brain into high gear to process and analyze it. Analysis is the catalyst that opens the
Writing Is Nature’s Way of Letting You Know How Sloppy Your Thinking Is Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Dick Guindon
It’s Very Easy to Be Different It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. — Jonathan Ive
We Look at the Present Through a Rear-View Mirror We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
1996 Web Development Nostalgia: A Terrible Wonderfulness Zach Holman, on his blog: Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious
TestFlight, Apple, and the Future of iOS Beta Testing I'm a heavy user of TestFlight. Both personally, and in my day job. The news of TestFlight's parent company Burstly suddenly being bought by Apple is intriguing as it is worrisome. You can
This disparity is astonishing. This disparity is astonishing. And I’m not alone in my experience. Increasingly, creative minds are torn in two opposing directions. We’re asked to apply our intellectual capital to solve hard problems—
Octopressed I loved Jekyll. But Octopress is my new best friend. Will be giving this a try for awhile. I'll definitely be creating a new theme soon, but for now I'll be sporting the
I want news that admits and defends its point of view I want news that admits and defends its point of view (and acknowledges that there is a truth to be uncovered), not news that parrots the party line while making claims to objectivity.
We can tell the stories we want to tell We can tell the stories we want to tell and say the things we need to say. We can do better. We can be better. — Frank Chimero - Velocity
When it arrived the web seemed to fill all of those niches at once. When it arrived the web seemed to fill all of those niches at once.The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that
We are in a wait-and-see, try-it-and-see phase of publishing We are in a wait-and-see, try-it-and-see phase of publishing and the web—past the initial Web 2.0 euphoria and into the hard business of creating great stuff (and finding new ways to
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this
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