Five Eights

I’m excited to be joining Eventual.

I’m publishing a subset of my private notes as a digital garden, as a home for unfinished thoughts, experiments, and random facts I find interesting.

Over the holidays I rebuilt this blog from scratch.

What should the engineering team of an early-stage startup care about?

As well as software, I also make cocktails.

If you work on a software product team, you’ve probably heard, or said, things like this: “The deadline is unreasonable, I can’t do a quality job in that time.”

Ever been in a conversation like this?

I don’t like discussions about quality in software.

When people who program want to convey to others the joy and satisfaction we find in our craft, we often liken it to doing magic.

What is programming like?