Blogging again. A lot has happened in four years.
One recent slice of it: I got laid off from Shopify in May 2023. It was an emotional gut-punch beyond what I could have imagined. If you've been through it, you know.
One of the best things I did to pick …
The first thing I did at Recurse was spend a couple weeks trying to get comfortable with writing functionally and recursively in Scheme.
One of the fun things about the book The Little Schemer is it has concise thought-provoking definitions. Like this one:
How is a [natural] number defined? It …
I looove chai and I'm always looking for something that satisfies my cravings. So far I have only once tried hand-making my own chai spice mix, and it didn't turn out that well... I'll let you know if I ever come up with something good! Meanwhile I am trying lots …
Writing better tests is a lifelong pursuit, apparently.
One thing I've been noticing lately, especially while doing code reviews, is that we are usually thinking about how do I know the code worked.
Great! But we are usually not thinking ahead about what am I going to do when the …
If you want to keep your customers happy, one foundation that your product process needs is a shared understanding across your entire organization around at what stage of development can you commit to a release date.
When sales is involved, this also translates to: at what point can the sales …
Here's a quick hack to help when you're lost in a too-large Python inheritance tree. What class provides the most specific implementation of a method or attribute?
def find(cls, name):
for sup in cls.mro():
if name in sup.__dict__:
return sup.__name__
return None
def find_all_vars(cls):
for …