code/life imbalance
19 June 2018
Near the beginning of my technical career, I worked at a fast-growing startup. One afternoon, my CEO walked into our dev area, which is something he _never _did. Some people in snazzy button-downs and sport coats followed him into the room, tipping us off that this was likely a show-and tell for some fancy VC-type folks in hopes of raising our Series E (or F or P or Z, who can remember) round of financing.
27 February 2017
01 April 2016
I’ve done a lot of thinking in the past about how a person carves up their identity, and most of the time I’m comfortable with a certain level of tribalism.
19 October 2014
The open source community can be a turbulent place, and this turbulence often plays out in public. Periodically, people leave a community, and when they do, the swirling drama can be fun or bemusing from a distance. The “Why I’m leaving community X” blog post from a prominent Community X member is common enough to qualify as its coming-of-age milestone.
05 April 2014
Nearly 18 months ago, a person emailed me out of the blue asking for advice on breaking into software development.
19 January 2014
