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Moving on from React
January 16, 2024
Hello Folks, I hope the new year is treating you well. We’re experiencing a bit of a cold snap here in Seattle, but slightly below freezing seems balmy...
What's Next
June 7, 2023
Hello! After more than 6.5 years at Gusto, I’ve moved on to start a new company. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work at Gusto and proud of...
Divining Dreams and Exploring LLMs
March 20, 2023
Hello! New blog post just dropped on a little app I built over the weekend called Dream Diviner. The app provides free dream interpretations. This app is...
Starting a Book - Finance for Software Engineers
May 25, 2021
Greetings on this fine Monday. Over the past few weeks I've started to put together a new project: a book. The goal is to write a book about finance for...
Why Finish Technical Migrations?
February 25, 2021
Hello! This week’s blog post tries to answer a question that I’ve been receiving a bit more at work. When and how do we make the decision to finish technical...
It Has Been 0 Days Since…
February 2, 2021
Hello! This week’s blog post explores a concept from workplace safety as it relates to engineering team health. It’s called: It Has Been 0 Days Since… The...
So You Want to Store a File...
January 26, 2021
This week’s blog post is distilled from several conversations I’ve been having at work recently. Why do we use S3? What’s an asset pipeline? Why should all...
Weekly Updates, Capital, and Ideology
January 19, 2021
Hello Folks! This week’s blog post is on a concept I use when starting or joining a young team. It helps build accountability and is a tool for radiating...
Testing Performance, Political Unrest, and New Books
January 12, 2021
Happy Tuesday, Folks. It feels a little weird to be publishing a newsletter, given the recent events in the U.S. over the past week. I’ll do something I...
Campaigns, Breaking Apart Monoliths, and Sustainable Changes
January 6, 2021
Hello! It's been a little while. I have not written a newsletter in nearly a year. 2020 threw a wrench into all of our plans. My wife and I tried to make the...
Wrapping up the series on testing
February 28, 2020
Hello Folks, Today we published the last episode of our Test Desiderata series. Over 12 episodes and 12 weeks, we examined different desirable properties of...
What are the desirable properties of tests?
February 14, 2020
Hello Folks! My colleague, Kent, and I have continued to produce videos around the desirable properties of tests. Today, we released our 10th episode. These...
What does it mean for tests to be readable and writable?
December 13, 2019
Hello Folks! I have not had the chance to write much in the past few weeks, but I have had the chance to put a few videos together on the ideal properties of...
Testing Behavior
November 14, 2019
Hello Folks! This week, my colleague and I recorded the first video in a series on testing. My colleague, Kent, wrote a post titled Testing Desiderata a few...
Taming Large Rails Applications with Private ActiveRecord Models
October 29, 2019
Hello Folks! This week’s post follows a similar theme of many previous talks and posts: How can we wrangle large Rails applications? As a business scales and...
A New Framework for Making Product-Technology Decisions
October 24, 2019
“$10 million?!” We felt like shit. Hello Folks! Throughout my career, I’ve had projects go well and less-than-well. Today brings a few stories and a...
Understanding Legacy Code with TCR
October 16, 2019
Hello! It’s been a little while. I took some time off of writing to get married in August. My wife (still weird to say) and I had a lot of fun and enjoyed...
What does empathy have to do with software? Posts and more from the spring and summer
June 19, 2019
Hello! It's been a little while since sending a newsletter out. I have not been writing that much in the past few months. Wedding planning, speaking gigs,...
Taming Monoliths without Microservices
February 21, 2019
Howdy Folks! I've finally recovered from the jet lag after heading to Australia for RubyConf AU. It was a great conference: many great talks and even better...
Better Code Through Mutation Testing
December 28, 2018
Hello Folks! I hope you’re having a relaxing holiday season. For myself, this is one of the busiest times of the year for work as Gusto helps its customers...
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