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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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How I learned about corporate firewalls
This is story about how I learned to be a little bit less naive about the web and how it works. But it's also a story of user experience and what we owe our users in terms of error handling - even when the problem isn't our fault.
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Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
The web is amazing and amazingly complex
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My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift
During my life as a software engineer there only have been a few occasions where the design and principles of a language struck me as inherently beautiful and consequently inspired me to work with them.
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Before brogramming, table flipping, and beyond
Technowoman, one woman and her travels through a career in technology
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My Favorite Engineering Interview Question
As Ning is ramping up recruiting again, I need to brush off my interrogation techniques interview questions. Sadly, one of my favorites is no longer so useful, as originally designed, due to technical advances in hard drives. I figured I’d share and discuss how I use it. Hopefully folks can give me some feedback on…
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Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to death?
Why programmers shouldn't work themselves into the ground for the company, told through the story of a brilliant developer called John.
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Emotions: A Code Book
What I write about my own personal journey is intended as just that—my personal journey.
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Programming Has Changed My Life
The story of how programming has made me a better person than I was.
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Open Decision-Making (2014)
In my experience as the founder and CEO of two startups I have had numerous opportunities to observe decisions being made: technical decisions about how to build products, personnel decisions about whom to hire, business decisions about how to market and sell our products, strategic decisions about company direction…
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Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
Building resilience teams with chaos engineering principles.
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My favorite coding question to give candidates
A coding question, from the viewpoint of an Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviewer
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
My experience working across timezones for Americans
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Why interruptions are frustrating to developers
What's the real cost of interruptions? I illustrate all the context developers keep in their head and how it starts to decay immediately when interrupted.
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I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
The longest project of my life
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When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworkers expressed when they discovered that he had, earlier in ... Read more
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Gaslight-driven development
Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like