Judgment and creativity are all you need. 🔗
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations wer [...]
Irrational Exuberance
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Refactoring internal documentation in Notion 🔗
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments. This is a writeup of the concrete steps I t [...]
Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? 🔗
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also ch [...]
Writing Visualizations with Remotion 🔗
Remotion is having a bit of a moment at the moment, and I decided to play around with the Claude Code integration. Here are a couple videos I was able [...]
Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving. 🔗
Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would tak [...]
Stripe's Lighthouse Hiring pattern. 🔗
I did a lot of hiring at Uber, some days I would be doing back-to-back 30 minute phone screens for several hours in a row. That said, while Uber taugh [...]
Pressure Without a Plan. 🔗
When we launched Digg v4, the old site turned off, but the new site didn’t turn on. There was a lot of pressure to get things working, but no one knew [...]
Learning from Every's Compound Engineering 🔗
One of the relatively few AI-native products I use is Cora.computer which summarizes my personal inbox. It’s not perfect, but it’s done a much better [...]