Google's Villain Arc
It seems so long ago when Google was the scrappy but growing technology upstart. It made sense of the morass that was the internet in the 2000s and early 2010s, and along the way rewrote...
A Ballad of Browser Tabs
Let's talk browser tabs for a sec. I read this newsletter about how someone kept all their browser tabs open: partially, as reminders to open tasks as a rough to-do list, but also as historical relics for reminiscing over past browser behaviors. As they waxed poetically about the archaeological significance of accumulated clutter,...
When to Value Non-Technical Work
This presentation resonates: Being Glue It's a pretty long read, but the high-level gist is that software engineers are, more often than not, evaluated primarily on hard technical chops. You know: the typical stuff that you find in technical interviews, to sit down and produce code and architecture that addresses some notion of...
The Dygma Defy Keyboard
Edit: I've been using this keyboard for a while now, and have updated my impressionshere. A year ago, I ordered and reviewed the Kinesis Advantage360: a modern update to the Advantage line of...
The Pattern of Technology
Almost a decade ago, the comms lead at Square wrote this piece on how the media builds up, and then tears down, its subjects like clockwork. At the time, we were—to use the horological analogy—at the metaphorical 11th hour, with the tech media questioning our business model and competencies as a payments processor,...
Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a rough read. Matthew Perry was an actor from a young age, an addict—of alcohol and drugs and fame and fortune, and an advocate for substance abuse. The book chronicles his upbringing as a son of divorced, celebrity parents, and how he made his way to...