Posts
- Jan 20, 2024
🏀👬 - Apr 18, 2023
🎂5️⃣0️⃣ - Nov 11, 2022
✈️☁️✅ - Nov 1, 2021
The API lifecycle has two parts—the awesome and the suck. The suck is the activation energy of acclimating to a new API, learning its primitives and quirks. Later on it's downtime or an unexpected 500 response. The awesome is easy—it's the API working for you, giving you the value (or data) you want out of it.
- Oct 27, 2021
KTME-KSJT-KELP-KRYN-KCXL-KIPL-KSMO-KWVI-KRDD-KVUO - Apr 4, 2020
A seemingly universal truth about engineers is that they like to complain about the codebases and technologies that they are tasked with working on. When it's a small, early-stage startup, those complaints are typically aimed at databases (👋🏻 Mongo), web app frameworks (👋🏻 Expresss), or third-party dependencies (👋🏻 npm & co). As the company and its codebases grow, those complaints are eventually going to be directed towards internal codebases.
If you're an early stage startup employee, those "internal codebases" also happen to be your work. - Dec 19, 2019
Picture this—you're in a group, a new team at work or school orientation and you're going around the room doing introductions. Maybe saying a few words about yourself, sharing three interesting facts, or talking about your favorite type of music.
I was the person that dreaded those moments. - Dec 8, 2019
What is a Christmas countdown? Well... I mean it really is just that. Maybe as a kid you did something like...