Search Results: writing
the blind side of seniority
…at some point in our lives. I got a dose of this while writing this piece. In the original first draft, the migration example said that adding a column with a default backfills the table on every… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…thing. This one will spend two days drawing boxes before writing a line of code, but there code will unfailingly be correct. This one is who you want in the room when production is on fire, but is… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…look for in an engineer when that engineer is not the one writing most of the code? That question sent us back to our hiring rubric early, as we reshaped our engineering process and organization… [more]
My Name is Ed
…I wrote this short story in college for a creative writing class in Spring 2008, so not new, just finally published here ↩ [more]
Spotify Archivist
…generative ai is good at creating in my experience so far. Writing something like this is not the same thing as writing larger applications, nor is it the same as editing and expanding large… [more]
Last Lectures
…engineer on my team today I thought it would be worth writing about them a little bit more. A book that was really impactful for me when I read it for the first time was The Last Lecture by Randy… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…code. You are also not just doing code reviews. You are writing and reviewing code. Share the load on code reviews so that others can grow, and so your team isn't deferring to you all the time on… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…the skill that seems most relevant. As Daren explained, writing a screenplay and telling a compelling story are not the same thing. A screen play is a blueprint for making a film, not a story in and… [more]
The infinite power of people
…PDF from Brené Brown . Personally I really enjoy Brené’s writing and research. It could be because she works at my alma mater (Go Coogs!), it could be that her Texan voice bypasses my defenses and… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…that it got. But Sanderson has grown and improved since writing it. Should this be the first Cosmere novel you read? No. Start with Mistborn, or Tress of The Emerald Sea, or even Yumi and the… [more]
New Literature Section Added
…you enjoy reading sometime decent, and sometimes terrible, writing there is a place to do that here. Honestly some of those nanos I love, and others are best left out of whatever corpus of writing I… [more]
Book Review-The Ocean at the End of the Lane
…he is. It’s more a content thing for me. Not all of his writing that I have read resonates with me. I can say the same thing for Neal Stephenson. Perhaps that is just how I relate to authors named… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…(Andrea Bonaccorsi) was not specifically considering when writing it. Which is a good place to start this: this paper was written about academic peer review and not about code review. I personally… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…for lots of reasons. Worth a read. Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury I love books about writing. I think that writing literature and writing software have lots of things in common. They are… [more]
2020: A year
…and notes. Hopefully in the future I can get around to writing more about the things I am learning in my new role. Just need to find time for it. In the meantime here is everything I read/consumed… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…that I wanted was a way to easily visualize the data I was writing into the graph. It’s handy when you are trying to figure out how the query language works to be able to see if your query returns… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
Prompt: "You are tasked with making the world most beautiful. Where do you start?" My first reaction is that I start with furniture. I believe that our perception of quality and beauty, which I… [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
…a clever one and not one I have seen written about so I am writing about it. The Setup I was in the market for a truing stand for building wheels and truing them for my bicycles. Because I’ve… [more]
monument
…get wrong is the developer experience. So as I’ve been writing monument it has focused on making project standup easy. I’ve also looked for ways to automate common development tasks through the CLI… [more]
Critiques and Code Reviews
…of my attempts to clear out my drafts folder. I started writing it on 3 August 2011 (So long ago!). Still seems relevant. Let’s talk about critiques, or as engineers call them code reviews. I am… [more]
So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.
I started writing this in July of 2015 and never got around to publishing it. Now to clean out my drafts folder, and to get back in the habit of publishing here it is! So you studied history, and… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…for clarity and content and to get rid of the horrible writing that was the first version *** [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…which was nice. I am pretty sure that if I really started writing something substantial that he would be a good source of information. That said the overall impression I had of the community was that… [more]
Seven Languages
…aka Catalan numbers As I go along I am also going to be writing up my experiences and thoughts and such. For some of the languages this should be pretty easy... for others it’s going to be a… [more]
2015: in review
…like it is going to be pretty exciting! With a lot more writing around here :-) [more]
Learning the Trade
I thought I would throw together a list of resources I have found interesting and useful when it comes to building the internet. This is by no means exhaustive and will be updated over time as I find… [more]
On To New Horizons
…building a product again, after almost two years of writing library code and tooling for developers, and working with a bunch of people way smarter then me. It’s going to be fun! [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
…need in order to look right. But, if you are already writing nicely SO classes then you are already doing this. So... on to the next one. D stands for definitely doesn’t apply to CSS. Actually… [more]
Toward a More Responsive Future
…it’s inability to determine display size. If you are writing your own server side device detection then there is really only one issue, #2, if you are using some one's third party service then… [more]
Current Projects Update
…you to a random selection. Most interesting part was writing the Java based web scraper for the General Conference Archive, since it didn't already have a feed. Still a little buggy but works good… [more]