Evidence
The debate ended when the PM pulled up a graph.
Craft
2021
2020
The crossover
The first migration had a platform on fire. The second has one that works. That is the harder one.
2018
The war room
The prep runs out ninety minutes in. The rest is improvised on a floor where nobody leaves.
2015
Building with one other person
What a codebase looks like when two people build everything -- 350 commits, and a todo list with two items.
2014
Git history with Gource
Turning months of git commits into an animated video with Gource and ffmpeg -- then opening the weekly sharing session with it.
Plans, not posts
Leaving the salary to try building something -- a platform where the unit isn't opinion or memory, but a plan.
2013
On Phabricator
Phabricator changed what code review means to me. A note from a few months in.
Node.js style guide
Our team's Node.js conventions -- error-first callbacks, early returns, callback alignment, and the formatting rules we drilled into every new developer.
History as communication
Commit history isn't a log of what happened -- it's a narrative you author. Rebase, atomic commits, and the discipline of writing history for the person reading it six months from now.
Starting over
Ditching WordPress for a custom Node.js blog engine powered by libgit2 -- git as the content store, markdown as the writing format, npm for everything else.
2012
The dispatch desk
A basement, a barcode scanner, and the moment the dispatch desk stopped waiting.
2010
Clean designs
The training gave me syntax. My first manager gave me taste.