Growth
The journey towards senior engineer, with an emphasis on soft skills & professional growth
- Evaluating project opportunities
- How to start a peer group
- The First Winter
- Testing Behavior vs Implementation
- What is the point of Optionals?
- There is more to it than code
- One Day Further
- Observations and Practices of a Tech Lead
- Do things, write about it
- On Becoming T-Shaped
- The Intern & New Hire Summer Reading List
- How to Not Quit
- Too Much Information
- Cross-Pollinate
- Evaluating Technical Arguments
- I Don't Have Time
- Move your feet
- A Dangerous Obsession with Primitives
- What's on your Learning List?
- Get Better
Delightful Products
Thoughts on building simple products that people love
- Twenty-five days of design
- The trouble with timestamps
- Software ate the world
- How not to validate email addresses
- Crappy emails make me sad
- "Have It Your Way" Software
- Engineering a First Run Experience
- Don't Email Me at 2am
- Email as the Interface
- Delightful UX: Medium's Time to Read
- You (yes you!) can make delightful products
- More Complicated Than It Needs To Be
Product Development
Lessons and experiences in validating, building, and supporting software products
- Closing Down a Product, Gracefully
- Adventures in Content Marketing
- A Live Chat Experiment
- How I Dunning-Kruger'd Marketing
- Small wins: printers and rubies and sales calls
- Writing a Postmortem
- Compounding technical debt
- Tracking down bugs without QA
- Getting reacquainted with our customers
Practices
Real-world experiences with agile techniques & challenging dogmatic practices
- All software advice is wrong
- This committee is a pointless time suck
- Compounding technical debt
- Internal tools should be sold or killed
- Code Neutral
- Juking the Stats
- Two Lines of Code: An Open Source Tale
- When in doubt, do a Spike
- How to Practice Code Reviews
- How to make writing tests less painful
- Getting Traction for your Open Source Project
- The 30 Second Standup
- Changing Plans
- Code Reviews: Good idea, bad idea?
- Overcoming Momentum
- Intrapreneurship: Applying the Lean Startup to building internal tools
- My take on interviewing and the hiring process
Reflections
Looking back critically, in both personal & professional contexts
- Personal Meditations on Software
- My Year in Review: 2013
- Expanding and Contracting
- Worst. Bug. Ever.
- My Year in Review: 2012
- Personal Time Capsule
- Motion is not Progress
- My Year in Review: 2011
- Over/Under: I'm a Serial Over Committer
- How HackerNews ruined my morning
Data Science Lite
Flailing around with data and trying to make sense of it all
-
Building a 
Fuzzy 
Emoji 
Finder 
- Software ate the world
- How much does 'crunch time' hurt team morale?
- A data-driven approach to finding toxic meetings
- Hacking my office Indy 500 pool: exploiting arbitrage in an inefficient market
Tangential
The intersection of software and other crafts & professions
- The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
- Hacking my office Indy 500 pool: exploiting arbitrage in an inefficient market
- Think Like a Chef
- How Buildings Learn (and why software is no different)
- The Making of a Chef
- More Tales in Bad Restaurant UX
- Myers-Briggs for Programming Styles
- The Optimistic Programmer
- Complications
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes On Performance
- New Coke User Experience
- Test First as System 2 Thinking
- The Applebee's of Software Development
Engineering in Android
Applying best-practices & techniques to Android development
- Extracting Form Models in Android
- Durable Android REST Clients
- Integration Testing against REST APIs in Android
- Reliable API testing for Android with Retrofit and Mockito
- Responsive Layouts in Android without Copy/Paste
- Repeating Background Textures in Android
Book Writeups
Short summaries of books I've been reading
- Algorithms to Live By
- The Undoing Project
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
- Sprint
- The Soul of a New Machine
- The Soul of a Chef
- The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
- Think Like a Chef
- Flash Boys
- The Senior Software Engineer
- Creativity, Inc.
- Everything is Bullshit
- The Game
- Think Like A Freak
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- The Making of a Chef
- The Motivation Hacker
- Confident Ruby
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Microinteractions
- Crush It
- The First 20 Hours
- Are Your Lights On?
- Complications
- How Children Succeed
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes On Performance
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Learned Optimism
- The Personal MBA
- Technical Blogging
- Objects on Rails
- Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec
- There's Always a Duck
- Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided By Tests
- The Cucumber Book
- What I've Learned From Failure
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- Driving Technical Change
- Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
- The Art of Readable Code
- Agile Retrospectives
- Ship It!
- Little Bets
- Inspired
- Personal Kanban
- Startups Open Sourced
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- Envisioning Information
- More Joel on Software
- Getting Real
- Hackers & Painters
- Pro Git
- Apprenticeship Patterns
- Pragmatic Programmer
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