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2024-09-07
Reflections on engineering onboarding
Leveling up your new job game
2024-04-01
Can it Creami? 🌟
The history and design of the ultimate ice cream machine
2024-03-10
The office
Designing the house machine for working
2024-03-10
Architecting happiness
Working on home improvement projects
2024-02-04
From thought to theme
Brainstorming yearly theme names
2023-12-15
An ongoing list of great books
My holiday book picks over the years
2023-09-10
Do things fast
Why you should practice moving quickly
2023-07-23
Coming into focus
Finally seeing myself as a runner and good engineer
2023-04-30
The app review experience from hell
Misadventures in working with Chrome extensions and Google OAuth
2023-04-02
Building the Recite Chrome extension
Rediscover your reading gems in new tabs
2023-01-16
Holiday book gifting
How to recommend books so people will actually read them
2022-12-19
Friends & fist-to-five
Making lightning-fast decisions about where to eat dinner
2022-12-04
Stacking PRs
How this technique levels up engineers
2022-09-25
Outdated vs. Complete 🌟
In defense of apps that don’t need updates
2022-09-11
Great reads for eng managers
An ongoing list of resources on being a good manager
2022-09-04
Juggling software projects
Changing your work mindset to level up your career
2022-04-02
Engineering growth expectations
Open-sourcing my version of an engineering ladder
2022-03-11
Working without an engineering ladder 🌟
Advice for engineers and managers at early-stage startups
2022-02-04
An existential essay by GPT-3
How an NLP model feels about NLP models and the human condition
2022-01-26
Clarity, grace, and humor
How a book about the elements of writing is really funny
2022-01-01
Patterns of engineering disasters
An incomplete collection of failed rewrites, refactors, and other engineering mishaps
2021-03-01
High-leverage architecture
The business impact of documentation and exploring architecture automation
2021-02-15
Baseline bodies
Loving your aging body and fixing a sedentary life
2020-10-18
Deconstructing digital gardens 🌟
How we can build better knowledge systems
2020-06-16
Learning to build better software from maps
Applying cartographic concepts to tech
2020-05-06
The amateur's guide to making a podcast
My first time making it out of the German forest alive
2020-02-16
Compensation 101
What I wish I knew before I started my job search
2019-12-31
2019 in numbers
Reflecting on going there and back again
2019-12-09
How I applied to 40+ tech companies and (mostly) survived
Quitting your job to search for a new job full-time
2019-09-17
Saving time with React Native
Actual developer data from launching a React Native mobile app
2019-07-12
Simulated annealing: a life framework 🌟
Making good decisions despite being biologically bad at making them
2019-02-22
Zen and the art of handstands
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Body
2018-09-03
Part 4: Matriarchy meets the modern world
How can a centuries-old culture deal with Communism and increasing exposure to the modern world?
2018-09-03
Part 3: Three-step guide to falling in love
How does love work in a matriarchal society? We find out how to court a Mosuo woman and when couples are considered officially married
2018-09-03
Part 2: The (family) future is female
How the definition of family is radically different in matriarchal society.
2018-09-03
Part 1: What I learned from “Women’s World”
Notes from my journey to visit the Mosuo, China’s last matriarchal minority
2018-06-01
3 tips to outsmart Disney theme parks
The local’s guide to 'The Happiest Place on Earth'
2018-02-12
How Disney World solved the user tracking problem