Big Tablets Are Coming Reflections on the Microsoft Surface Studio and Apple’s inevitable giant iPad. We live in an age where The Forgotten Man is the one who likes to sit at a large desk and do work

What To Do With One’s Hands After The Election Horror, but not surprise. Dismay, but not anger — not exactly. Fear? A bit, sure, mostly for others. The flight instinct, certainly, but it wore off pretty quick. How many people have told you how they’re feeling since the election? How many people have…

After more than three years helping to build a business around a developer facing SaaS product, I've left to start my own consulting company called Reify. We do sales and Marketing software and proces

Most of my learning in https://t.co/WFxi9Zttn6 came via @ekp @EricaJoy @cbracy. Really appreciate their words and works.

Theory vs. Practice Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. Martin H. Fischer › Google's "Director of Engineering" Hiring Test Recently, I have been interviewed over the phone by a Go

I love having tests. I hate writing them. It’s tedious. It’s boring. It’s hard, sometimes harder than writing the code. Worst of all, it doesn’t feel like it accomplishes anything. So I usually don’t

3 min read · Sep 18, 2016 -- A sampling of talks In no particular order, here are some of the talks that I liked. It’s not a complete list! Caching at Netflix : this was pretty cool! They moved a larg

Here are some stories on how you can go wrong with naming, especiallyin open source software. Easy Don't use the name "easy" or "simple" in your software as it won't beand people will make fun of it.

Event sourcing is an architectural pattern where you persist commands to mutate your data instead of overwriting the old values. Readers are responsible for building their own view of the data from th

The Unix command line is full of surprises. For instance: did you know that the OS X version of the ls tool, most frequently used to get a list of the files in the current working directory, recognize

Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel