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the blind side of seniority
…of spinning our wheels on a perfect solution for every possible use of an event bus, most of which we might never need. We might only ever use it for this one thing. If so, great. It would still… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…rationalize farming completely, and squeeze the maximum possible yield out of every acre of land. However, acres aren't the same. Not across a region, and not even across a single field. The soil… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…Understands how their work fits into the bigger picture across teams, codebases, and the product. Can zoom from the 1000-mile view down to a single block of code. Architects for broad requirements,… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…or could. They say the sight of my body in front of the blossom of fire was mortifying and yet they couldn’t drag their eyes away from it. I was told how painful the impact looked when my body slammed… [more]
My Name is Ed
…I walked around to the other side of the fence and, what possessed me I am still not sure, lashed out fiercely with my foot. I know. I know. Not exactly the brightest thing to do. It worked great for… [more]
Safe Homes
…by other's choices They† built l'Acadiane, From the mossy swamps After half their number Dead in violent expulsion Their enemies stole pastoral homes Driven by distrust, to hatred Of who they were Of… [more]
help the person next to you
…or you quit, you do—or you do not. Some men who seemed impossibly weak at the beginning of SEAL training—men who puked on runs and had trouble with pull-ups—made it. Some men who were skinny and short… [more]
Whimpers and Bangs
…Can it's death be less than The shocks and tremors The loss and tears Of dreams once shared, Now shattered with Reality's rising sun? The whimpers of hopes Now gone Uttered in quiet rooms The murmurs… [more]
Last Lectures
…talk about whatever they want to. That’s it. Managers across the company are invited, and all of engineering. We record it and send it around to anyone who wants to see it. So far they have all been… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…a reasonable way. A reasonable way, means not comparing across teams, because no two teams will estimate the same way. It also means don't take it as the end all be all of the metrics. It, like… [more]
About A Bike Race
…for the line You look left and see your rivals wheel cross the line You breathe. This was written for a beat poetry event in my congregation. Here is a video of the performance with backing band. [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…them as well. Innovation is nearly always some sort of cross pollination from another discipline, so I wanted to bring someone to speak to us who worked outside of technology and that I thought we… [more]
Cultural Homogeneity
…work to remove those. Innovation often happens through cross pollination of ideas across disciplines. Social innovation is likely similar. And just like we need generalists to help drive that… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…crystallizing in the national psyche, along came a small posse from afar whose story pushed back against such simplistic thinking." Besides those profound thoughts it's just a fun fun ride… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…of this for a remote work force are dramatic. Possibly more dramatic for the interview process. The paper mentions elsewhere that an increase in delay of 600 ms "was observed to [reduce the… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…find any of this interesting it is worth a read. It is possible that there are biasing elements in code review based on, theprestige of the author, the prestige of the change, the relationship between… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…me: Build trust before you need it Be as transparent as possible Communicate early and often Admit when you don’t know the answer or can’t divulge the answer openly Provide space for… [more]
2020: A year
…out how you contribute the most and do only that when possible. Rage - Bob Woodward Fear was excellent, Rage was mindblowing. Bob Woodward doing amazing journalism. Fair Play - Eve Rodsky Read this… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…Hopefully this will save you some time. I’ll also toss in a some notes or thoughts about a book where it seems reasonable. Things Worth Reading First and foremost I joined the Association for… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…as we accepted that maybe beauty is something we innately posses, something that needs little augmentation, and that the process of becoming over time is true beauty indeed. [more]
monument
Over the past several years I’ve been working on a new application framework for nodejs. Monument is currently on it’s second major release. What is Monument Monument is focused on three things:… [more]
ambition. life's work.
…us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and that those are likely tied up in our life’s work.… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…ultimately these code style arguments, when they happen across teams, are just a waste of time. The only real metric that matters is whether the code works, ships, and can be maintained. Languages… [more]
Death to Jquery
…based APIs generally dealing with AJAX is pretty easy cross browser in which ever flavor of API you choose. The power of the web as a platform is greater then it ever has been. On top of that add in… [more]
ambition. life's work.
…us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and that those are likely tied up in our life’s work.… [more]
begin it
…let Resoluteness promptly seize the forelock of the Possible, and then, reluctant to let go again, she’s forced to carry on and be productive." Either way. Go. Do it. Whatever it is. [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…felt like it was pretty simple to wrap my head around, possibly because the language I know best is also prototypal. Before we jump into the things I learned about the language that I thought were… [more]
estimations and theory building
…is creating a theory of how the world functions it is impossible to completely transfer the theory from one programmer to another. Documentation helps, but the complete underlying theory is… [more]
2015: in review
…happen. I should have it done this 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… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…components should be focused on the smallest interaction possible. High order components can compose these low level components into larger systems. The difficult part of all this is understanding… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…browsers display the same fonts differently on different OSs. And depending on how the developer codes things, fonts could look different in the same browser/OS. There is also a lot… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…you want your team to succeed in ways you never thought possible it must happen. It does happen though. Think Michael Jordan. A while ago I was working on a team building a web app. It had some new… [more]
Their eyes met across the subway car. A…
Their eyes met across the subway car. A smile. He moved to the open seat next to her, his heart trembling with each step. "Cut!" [more]
Toward a More Responsive Future
…aspect of your site you are opening yourself up to the possibility that something will go wrong on their end and effect your site negatively. They could get hacked, they could go out of business, they… [more]
There is a Right Way
…the jig to produce a jig as safely, and quickly as possible. We could have made the same mancala boards with a chisel, or wood carving knives, but the time constraints, age of operators, and quantity… [more]
Don't Call Me. I'll Call You. Single Request Responsive Images
…regardless of the size of your screen. And it’s cross browser compliant with a non-javascript fall back. Let's take a quick look at the javascript: var resizeImages = function(){ var imgs =… [more]
11
…seem quite real. I couldn’t quantify that kind of loss. I still wonder sometimes if I understand the true scope of what happened that day, the number of lives lost, the individual tragedies that… [more]
Current Projects Update
…system designed to make fighting XSRF as simple as possible. Well that's the run down of the smaller personal apps I have out there. Check them out and let me know if you have any suggestions for… [more]
Trust and the Box
…that happened there to a group of educators from across the country. Sitting at one of the consoles preserved from the Apollo days I was amazed as he unfolded story after story about the people who… [more]
A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies
…more difficult to hijack the session. Does this make it impossible to hijack the session? No. Security is about making it more difficult to gain access. There is always a way to compromise a system,… [more]