Writing
Essays on software, management, and building things.
Long-form, infrequent, written after the fact, mostly about running engineering teams without pretending the work is tidy.
2022
How I Run a Team of Remote Software Engineers (Part 1 - Meetings)
Remote is different than in-person. Managing is different for remote vs in person. Trying to run the remote team like…
Nov 18
Picks of the week 0 - Seinfeld's writing process, The Founder Mindset
Pick 1: Jerry Seinfeld Interview How does Jerry write? Consistently He's working on material every day. Having a…
Oct 21
2018
Elixir/OTP on AWS Lambda - Reflections
You can't talk about Elixir without talking about OTP. It is integral to the language and ecosystem and a compelling…
Dec 13
Reflections on the book Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
TLDR: Its a great book and you should buy it. Seriously. Stop reading this and go buy it right now. Having just…
Jul 23
Using Tachyons is a huge productivity boost
I come from the dark days of CSS when browser support was so-so and you had to have fallbacks for your fallbacks for…
Jul 19
AWS AppSync First Impressions
AppSync is a service from AWS that lets you configure a GraphQL API over your AWS data sources including DynamoDB,…
Jun 30
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