The One And Only Blog Of Joe Fabisevich

As I discussed in my last blog post, I recently joined Pursuit.org as their Director AI Product Engineering.

tldr; Want to skip straight to the news and find out about my new job?

Around my birthday (which is today 🥳) I always feel a lot of love.

I won't bury the lede, I'm looking to go back to work full-time.

I'm riding on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and wanted to jot down my thoughts from the 48 hours I spent in Tokyo.

Yesterday I posted this on Mastodon and Bluesky to share how much I've been enjoying blogging as a creative outlet.

Consider this a PSA.

I've always felt very conflicted about the idea of donating my organs when I die.

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Colleen and I were binge-watching Gossip Girl last winter, and there are a few scenes where a stressed and irate Blair Waldorf wanders over to Central Park to feed the ducks.

This blog post is documentation for a very specific problem I run into about once a year.

The iPhone 15 Pro launched with a marquee feature, the Action Button.

The post below was written by me, originally featured on the Plinky blog.

The Turing test is dead, and we killed it.

When I wrote The Future Will Be Signed almost six years ago the latest in AI advancements was Google Duplex.

Sometimes I think about all of the societal issues I cared about 10 years ago: privacy, government overreach, and platform accountability.

To set expectations for you my dear reader, this blog post was written for me, not for you.

Is coding a science or an art?

Hard to believe it's over.

Crafting a great interview process is difficult1, especially for software development where a company is often trying to assess years of specialized knowledge and potential in only a few hours.

Tell me who you are in 160 characters.

The work of writing maintainable code is an ongoing endeavor and some of my favorite problems to solve are ones that build maintainable systems.

For a long time I've told people that I love technology and all it enables, yet dislike the technology industry and working in tech.

GraphQL has been on my list of technologies to learn for a few months now, and last week I came across Majid Jabrayilov's post, feeling pretty excited to tackle the subject.

Apple's been in the news quite a bit lately over concerns that many apps on the App Store are little more than scams.

I recorded an episode of the Empower Apps podcast, where Leo Dion and I discussed a wide range of topics.

I've been thinking about privacy lately.

As iOS developers, a lot of our work involves taking models from a server, and transforming them to be displayed on an iPhone or iPad.

If you haven't checked out Part I, I recommend reading it because if you don't, none of writing below will make sense!

Maybe the real friends were the friends we made along the way.

Throughout history technology has aided humanity.

When 2018 started I set out to read 10 books this year.

As a mentor, I give a lot of advice.

The people will not revolt.

I recorded an episode of @learnswift_fm with Steven Sherry a couple weeks back.

How many times have you been called into a meeting only to realize five minutes into it that you’re likely going to speak for sixty seconds… if you’re lucky?

I was asked Is the code quality at an early stage startup higher or lower than the code quality at a bigger company?

It has become quite common for companies interviewing engineers to give candidates take home tests.

Cryptography is becoming more important in our every day lives and there’s no way around it.

Cryptocurrency is all the rage these days.

As I was on hour six of debugging how to read an object from the database, my brain suddenly noticed the slight difference in two lines of code.

Two meta-skills that help a programmer grow more than just practicing their coding.

This is a blog post by Jasdev Singh, originally published on jasdev.me.

Every day at a startup is an exercise in getting to tomorrow.

This is an interview that I did with Sam Jarman, originally posted on his blog.

I recently re-discovered UIKeyCommand while listening to Caleb Davenport’s, podcast, Runtime.

WWDC is right around the corner!

Ignores commenting on another static vs. dynamic dispatch article because people won’t accept Swift is a hybrid not plain static. — Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) May 24, 2016 Guess that didn’t last long.

At the original iPhone announcement, we saw Steve Jobs on stage with Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt, showing off Google’s amazing Maps.

I pushed the magic button to get a Shyp person here to send out a couple packages I have been procrastinating sending for weeks.