Software Engineering Manager in San Francisco. Interested in startups, SaaS, APIs, agile, engineering culture, graphql, react & node.

San Francisco
Joined May 2008
I’ve derived tremendous value from Twitter and have used it daily, though I don’t tweet much. Sadly, I’m deleting the Twitter app after 14 years. I’ll leave my account in case things turn around. But I cannot via my presence support its ownership.
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Final report from the committee on tabs vs. spaces.
Give this book a coding-related title 👇👇
Absolute classic, “on the spectrum of abstraction.” Couple this with @richhickey’s “simple made easy” viewpoint of abstraction and a trade offs viewpoint of architecture, @ruthmalan style. (ruthmalan.com/Journal/2019/2…). Level up for shared code design.
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Hiring a PHP Engineer in or around Poland to work on SDKs for realtime use cases. Looking for someone with a experience writing code that other developers use and with a passion for creating a great developer experience. pubnub.com/company/careers/?…
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Fixing the flakey tests in a suite of 4000 selenium tests
Jeff Moore retweeted
You know how you got your vaccine without paying a dime? That’s how all health care could be.
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It sure is hard to search for a document in a certain word processor created by a company that built their business on searching for the most relevant documents
My piece on @fsf reelecting Richard Stallman to the board took longer than most. I wanted to balance journalistic integrity with communicating how deeply disturbing it is that in 2021 we still put deification of some men in tech over the word of victims. thenewstack.io/why-almost-ev…
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Never in the past could I have imagined what every day conversation would be like in 2021: “Remember that federal building, the one attacked by anarchists, after the coup, but before the inauguration? Well they opened a dispensary across the street.”
It’s called a “drip coffee maker” because the carafe is designed to drip coffee on the counter when you pour a cup.
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We’re so agile that we’ve planned out the next three sprints. 🙀
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” via @mroich
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Confession: I’ve made many attempts over the years to appreciate observables. But ultimately I’ve never found any app that uses them that makes me say “I want my code to look like that code,” or any problem I’ve had for which they seemed like the best answer. There. Said it.
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I need a simplified UI built on top of DirectTV for someone with dementia. 6-12 preselected favorite channels. No pay, shopping, guide, or any other channels. A four button remote: on, off, next channel, prev channel. No other buttons. No on-screen UI interaction. How?
Googled “for loop count backwards” today.
1/ A @twitter product manager comes to the start of two lines in the afterlife. The lines are long and there’s no indication of where they may lead. An usher gestures to one line and says, “your spot is here.”
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6/ The figure turns to him and says, “Of course, you’re right. All you had to do is express your preference to begin with. But it’s not too late. Just go to the end of the other line.”
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7/ Relieved, the PM runs toward the start of the other line. After his back is turned, the figure chuckles, “never gets old,” and swaps the signs on the doors with a wicked grin.