Plans, not posts
2014.120Leaving the salary to try building something -- a platform where the unit isn't opinion or memory, but a plan.
Craft
2014
2013
On Phabricator
2013.244Phabricator changed what code review means to me. A note from a few months in.
Node.js style guide
2013.051Our 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
2013.049Commit 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
2013.036Ditching 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
2012.264A basement, a barcode scanner, and the moment the dispatch desk stopped waiting.
2011
The catch that never fired
2011.317Reading the parent frame's URL throws in Firefox and returns undefined in WebKit. The defensive catch I wrote never fired.
2010
The screen I couldn't read
2010.311The options chain lit up -- green for up, red for down. I wrote the code that put the numbers there. The screen was never for me.
Clean designs
2010.301The training gave me syntax. My first manager gave me taste.