By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot).
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Why America can’t build quickly anymore
It is well and good to have the government handle large externalities, or quantifiable ones. I should pay for the wear and tear my car puts on the road. I should pay for the carbon impact of my emissions. But … Continue reading
Umpires, not kings
“Winners will always seek to entrench themselves, buying up competitors or starving them of resources and seizing control of political power and forums for speech and debate.” “It’s long past time to replace the idolatry of innovators with a reinvigorated … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a 1:1
The Anatomy of a 1:1 by Cate over at Accidentally in Code is a fantastic breakdown of how one manager structures their one-on-one meetings. I love the structured thinking, especially the development conversation flow. Continue reading
The Next Generation: The Animated Series
What if Filmation had made episodes of The Next Generation? Continue reading
django-configurations
django-configurations: Sanest approach I’ve seen to having multiple DJANGO_SETTINGS_FILE setups for your various environments. Plus it looks like it’d work really well with envdir which lets you store environment variables in files in a folder and execute programs using that folder’s … Continue reading
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If it hurts…
If it hurts… – "If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward"
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The One Thousand Hour Rule
The One Thousand Hour Rule – "You need to put in 1000-hours of hard work on a new project to begin seeing meaningful returns."
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Postgres 9 Streaming Replication and Django-Balancer
Postgres 9 Streaming Replication and Django-Balancer –
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Chris Heisel 