Movies I watched in 2024
I watched a lot of movies this year: 128 of them to be exact and 74 of those were ones I watched for the first time (or first time in a long long time). I’ve never watched this many movies in a …
A few Copenhagen spots
This past July, we spent a few days in Copenhagen. A coworker (Fatih!) asked for a few tips, and since I wrote them up in Slack, I figured I’d copy and past them here for more permanence. …
Software I gladly pay for
I always enjoy reading about software that people will actually choose to pay for and endorse, so here’s some of mine. Deliveries: We probably buy more than we should over the Internet, but this …
Week Roundup: 2024-09-02
Fogwall over the bay, Aug 28 Today is Labor Day and due to a work perk (a Friday off every month), I am on day 3 of a 4 day weekend. Often weekends are a bust as far as moving anything forward, but …
Thoughts about Twitter
I write this as thousands of Twitter employees learned in the past day that they no longer had a job. They were dumped unceremoniously, the result of the addled whims of a walking meme. I wanted to …
Three Levels of Developer Productivity
If you work on developer productivity, you sit in an unique spot. You are often given a broad mandate — “make the engineers more productive”-and typically little guidance on what the word ‘productive’ …
Rules over Safety
Last year, MUNI removed a few seats from the front of its standard electric buses by permanently locking them upright. They did this due to safety reasons: “these seats do not have a barrier in …
Hello, Slack
Two weeks ago, I started at Tiny Speck as their engineering manager, working on Slack. Slack is getting bigger in almost every way that matters and I’m excited about getting to take part in it. …
A Tahoe Trip
Meghan and I got back from Lake Tahoe this afternoon. We shared a house in Incline Village, Nevada with her parents and three brothers who had flown out from Tennessee. It was a relaxing week of …
A Train Adventure in Italy
A couple of months ago, my wife and I went on a two week vacation to Europe for our 5th wedding anniversary, splitting our time between Paris, Rome, and Cinque Terre. The first leg of our trip was in …