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Technical Interview Superforcasters
The new VP wants us to double engineering’s headcount in the next six months. If we have a chance in hell to hit the hiring target, you seriously need to...
Lessons Learned: Giving Feedback as an Engineering Manager
Earlier in the year, I became the Engineering Manager on a team responsible for half of the outages at our 2,000 person company. After each incident, the...
Working Remotely Crossed the Chasm on May 12, 2020
From academia to the Open Source movement, remote collaboration is not exactly novel. From Github to DuckDuckGo, remote-first successful businesses are n...
Confessions of a Deadbeat Open Source Maintainer
The year was 2013, Meteor was the hip new kid on the block and Coffeescript was a reasonable JS dialect choice. We were fresh out of college. Meteor was...
Test Driven Interviewing
TDD forces you into the ideal mindset for nailing down (1) problem definitions. There's no better way to properly grok a problem than to have to think th...
Dependonate: Donate to your dependencies
Giving back to open source projects you benefit from is one of those obviously-good-in-theory-confusing-in-practice ideas, like eating healthy or being c...
Flystein saved me over 1000 dollars on flight costs and all they got was this blog post
I spent about half an hour on Skyscanner and Google Flights, and couldn’t find flights for less than about $3,000. Which is a lot. At roughly the same ti...
Hackathon - A retrospective - a talk
in February about a hackathon we ostensibly threw.
Did I say Estonia? I meant Costa Rica
I'm putting Estonia on hold - still excited to go there, and hoping to do so in April or May, once it warms up again.
When visas turn into pumpkins
My US work visa runs out in a month, so I'm leaving for about a year to go travel. I start on August 2014.