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De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area
Learn about the most recent initiatives at Zapier.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 322 posts.
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When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are
On August 31, 2015, I started a Ph.D. in cryptography at TU Eindhoven, working with Tanja Lange and Dan Bernstein. On December 2, 2016, I…
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Acing the technical interview
If you want to get a job as a software witch, you’re going to have to pass a whiteboard interview. We all do them, as engineers–often as a part of our morning ritual, along with arranging a beautiful grid of xterms across the astral plane, and compulsively running ls in every nearby directory–just in case things have…
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How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
Did I mention how awesome it is to live 30 minutes from a ski lift?In March of 2016, I launched a course called The Complete Guide to Rails Performance. Sinc...
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How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
A story about the unconventional strategies I used to land a job I love.
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On Programming Languages: Why My Dad Went from Programming to Driving a Bus
I discuss, with stories, why programming language choice matters and provide guidelines, along with an infographic of popular 2017 languages.
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The no excuses culture
Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raini…
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A response to “How to never complete anything”
The following is my response to Ewan Valentine’s blog post “How to never complete anything” that I discovered on Hacker News. Once again, I ask for people’s indulgence for posting a reply on my own blog rather than in the Hacker News comments. I find writing on my own blog a bit easier than wading […]
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Nevertheless, She Coded
She was discouraged, she was given an excuse to quit. Nevertheless, she coded.
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Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code
There are many great coding principles, but it can be hard to keep them all in your head at once. Instead, I try to remember these three attitudes.
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Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
👉 The decision was close, but the team has decided to keep looking for someone who might have more direct neural net experience.\n👉 Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought process and results was confusing for some people in the room.\n👉 He’s needing someone with an image analysis background for data…
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Stock options are complicated
Most employees at startups get some of their pay in stock options. This is often framed to the employee as “you get x percentage of equity in the company.” Unfortunately, stock options are a lot more complex than true equity.
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I spent three months working full time to get a job
A retrospective on the technical interview process based on three months of searching for a job.
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Decline of the Dad Job
Before I learnt to read I made sense of the world by conjuring up images in my mind, particularly for abstract concepts. I could count before I could read and had an image for each number. Many of …
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Sexism at Uber from Female Management
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
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Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering
Widom, an innovator in engineering education, taught one of Stanford’s first MOOCs.
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Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
LinkedIn endorsements are useless. See the research we did and learn why these endorsements are dumb.
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Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land
Learn how how incident management is done inside Google's own SRE team.
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Mathematicians becoming data scientists
I was talking the other day with a former student at UW, Sarah Rich, who’s done degrees in both math and CS and then went off to Twitter. I asked her: so what would you say to a math Ph.D. …
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The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
Update 2019: This article got 183 comments on Reddit, and 237 comments on Hacker News. Many commenters said it couldn’t be done — they…
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Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
Thanks to a recruiting process that left a bad taste in my mouth, I refuse to accept any further interviews from large tech companies unless they are on my terms.