Search Results: API
the blind side of seniority
…who rose to heroic status as they accepted each other and capitalized on their individual strengths to build unbeatable teams. Because of that, I have always looked at building teams as finding the… [more]
Spotify Archivist
…that reads all of my liked/saved songs from spotify's api, and creates playlists of them based on the year that they were saved. The playlist names should be structured like "Liked Songs… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…Some of the best advice I ever received was to get a therapist as a leader. Empathy can't be overemphasized here. The Emotional Intelligence of a team lead has a huge impact on the culture and… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence ( Notes ). Lots of interesting things here. First, we’re all experimenting higher anxiety than baseline. Second,… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…power of the narratives we tell ourselves. Its role in shaping how we see ourselves, others, and the world. He focuses in on how the stories we tell shape our interactions and thus shape each other,… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
Delays and technical issues bias us against others experiencing them. This comes from "Why are you so slow? - Misattribution of transmission delay to attributes of the conversation partner at the… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…face of the realities of fast moving organizations and rapidly shifting architectures. For example, if you name a team "The Payments Team", you need to be confident that, 1) they will always… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
…8 months) and I am looking for more people to join our rapidly expanding team. Check out the jobs, and more information about our team below! Open Jobs Team Lead We're looking for people centered… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…another appearance. I liked it better the second time. Sapiens - Yucal Noah Harari A fascinating read, read it because our CEO really loves it. Atomic Habits - James Clear Good early year read and… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…stuff. It has some silly stuff. But the discussion about API first design, and appropriately sizing your modules provides a good framework. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…of the project was going to be a series of lambdas and api gateways, and it was going to be hosted in AWS I got curious about Neptune. Oh, and because I know less about scaling and maintaining graph… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…a concert poster trapped on the corner window of a dillapiated building that somehow sticks around for months after the concert is over. In thinking about this I realized that the most important thing… [more]
monument
…tools. That means you can rough out your entire REST API in the time it takes to describe your routes in JSON. The other thing that plays a key role in the developer experience is the decoupled nature… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…college in CS for are common today. The market has made a rapid and forceful transformation. Also, films like The Social Network have made developing web apps cool. Creating a tech startup has become… [more]
Death to Jquery
…it. But, now... it’s time to move on. The DOM APIs have standardized, with fetch, and the prevalence of stream based APIs generally dealing with AJAX is pretty easy cross browser in which ever… [more]
estimations and theory building
…know what the final implementation of a feature or API is going to look like until we have spent the time reasoning about the problem space. Usually once we have reasoned about the problem enough to… [more]
2015: in review
…quarter (fingers crossed). For the curious it is a REST APIed data store with both a hosted and self-hosted option. monument has taken off averaging around 1000 downloads per month, putting it in the… [more]
Biology and CSS
…generation. I have brown hair, that is rapidly going gray even at the ripe old age of 31. I have blue eyes and olive skin. Now that you know more about my physical appearance than you wanted to… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…in a component. I mean it is a component. It has an API that it exposes to developers, it has default behavior and appearance. It’s a component. This helps me understand what components really… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…polished and cohesive. For example, I am running the El Capitan Beta on my personal laptop. It has its warts. One thing I noticed, as an avid Spaces user, is that the transition between… [more]
REST vs. RPC and a mention of HATEOS
…just make an endpoint called /doX and hit it and bam the API did X! It’s just so simple! Except that it is the same as saying that you will only ever want to do X with your data. The only way to… [more]
11
…humanly possible. As the camera zoomed in on the burning, gaping hole in the first tower, I noticed something bright dripping from the corners and bottom. I knew it was molten metal, and prayed that… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…have in large part become ephemera. As this process of cheapification accelerated through the 90s, and into the first decade of the new century, it began to have an interesting effect. People… [more]