Unearthing an Old Programming Document
The internet never forgets. If nothing else, the Wayback Machine does a dutiful job of saving mostly coherent snippets of the web across an impressive breadth of time. I was reminded again a couple weeks...
Learning
Best. Autocomplete. Ever.
During a recent role-playing portion of our interview training session at Square, I was trying to come up with a caricature of an interviewing engineer attempting to impress my counterpart across the table. I ended up embellishing upon my starter project at Google; in retrospect, it was easily one of the most over-engineered pieces of...
Selectively Implementing the Web
Underlines are a big deal to Medium. Reading this post harkens me back to the days when IE hacks roamed the earth and web developers spent cumulative millennia discovering and implementing ridiculous patterns in code...
Quick Blog Design Update
I have a problem. I get bored/tired of how this blog looks. Given the time I spend every week writing and editing and posting, I overthink how impactful it makes its first (visual) impression....
Introduction to Computer Science is Just a Start
My alma mater, UC Berkeley, put out a progressive news release last week: for the first time ever, there are more women enrolled in the Intro to Computer Science class than men. It's an amazing accomplishment in light of the male-dominated software engineering industry; much digital ink has been spilt about how uncomfortable...
Front-End Engineering and the Application of Trivia
I've written plenty of front-end opinions and experiences on this blog over the years, around: * Defining them * Getting them * Growing them * Promoting them I've spent a good amount of time thinking about the role, the specialization and how the field would mature over time. So when I read this post on...