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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished they would trust me based on my track…
Let's get weird... here are some questions. These questions aren't special questions or specifically meant as only this set of questions... they are just questions that capture the spirit of 'pause and think on some stuff that you don't'. Fill in your own questions if you have better ones.
Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.
Friday was my 9 year anniversary of starting as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Monday I was laid off.
My way of thinking about long-term habit building
Part 2 of a blog post about my time on the computer science job market in 2021-2022, in which I discuss my personal decision-making process between offers.
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
It’s hardly insightful to suggest that the last few years have substantially changed the day to day experience of a knowledge worker. Nearly overnight even the most remote skeptical leadership teams were forced to embrace flexible work practices like working from home. But now, despite COVID-19 being a
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
Here is a copy of the MIT license. One of the well-known open source licenses. It is, effectively, the only license that I’ve used for software I wrote or contributed in the last 10 years:
In this post, I'll show you a common pitfall you should avoid when teaching during code reviews.
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It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.
Debug, simplify and execute.
Annotations, such as Javadoc, help maintainers understand your coding decisions.
You probably aren't qualified to dissect your own failures because you're the idiot who screwed everything up.
Introduction So I recently completed my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. (Hurrah! It was so much fun.) In 2-and-a-bit years I wrote 12 papers, received 4139 GitHub stars, got 3271 Twitter followers, authored 1 textbook – doing double-duty as my thesis – and got the coveted big-tech job-offer. On…
There are types of contracts that you should be wary of signing, particularly in the software engineering and IT industry. There are potential pitfalls of non-compete clauses, confidentiality agreements, exclusive distribution agreements, and vague project-based agreements. It's important to understand the…
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdf…
Yet commentators and politicians keep missing it
A blog about game engines, graphics, C++, and more.
