Words from Kenneth

It felt like we did a lot this year.

✨ Hey, it’s time for one of those posts I make each year. ✨ In January we went to Hawaii, and this time we took some friends which was a really good idea.

Ok, right, so, the year is over.

When I first joined Frec one of my big questions was why they'd chosen a GraphQL API.

The boy (6yo) wakes up five minutes before my alarm goes off at seven.

This February I switched jobs, from Twitter to Frec.

After a decade at Twitter, I decided to dedicate the next year to learning new things.

Yesterday we talked about a/b testing at large companies like Twitter, and we ran through a simple example.

One of the great perks of working at a place like Twitter is the ability to run a/b tests against a large userbase.

Well shit, the COVID pandemic didn't end with the vaccines.

2020 was the pandemic year.

Occasionally, someone will complain that “Twitter keeps resetting my autoplay setting” on the website, and they’ll usually imply that we’re doing it for ads or other nefarious purpose.

Well this is weird.

My annual review of the past year.

In the EU, there's a requirement that users are warned about the cookies that a site uses.

There are different kinds of note-takers.

Verification is a feature common to Facebook, Twitter and several other social media networks.

Twitter added a new control to the home timeline recently: "latest tweets".

After months and maybe years of stress, meeting, late nights, bug reports, dogfooding, requirements changes, dependency changes, management changes, user testing and actual coding, you're ready to ship your significant rebuild.

Cookies are hard to manage.

I think I first learned about CSRF at an "@media" conference talk in 2008 given by Simon Willison (Twitter).

My annual review of the past year.

Ah, shit.

You build a startup quickly, scale the tech as far as it goes.

The first time my mother-in-law came to stay with us, she was sleeping on the floor.

Five thirty.

The end of the year once again.

When Jack was born, he had five great-grandparents.

Ok, it’s the end of the year.

I've never been the one with the fancy words and clever insights.

Every year I scribble down a list of things I've done in the past 12 months.

I ran the San Francisco marathon two weeks ago today.

Three years of age is a fantastic time.

My annual End of Year update.

We started building Flight.js at Twitter back in 2011.

My annual End of Year update.

Catherine Webb recently pointed me to her outstanding 2008 post "Baby Holiday: SWAT Team special".

I once went to New Zealand.

Bought a new Orange Pay-as-you-go SIM.

I love my job.

I throw another log onto the fire.

My annual End of Year update.

I'm English.

Remember at the end of the 19th century, when we all got together and agreed to stop bowing and curtseying and saying "good heavens, whatever is the matter child?"

Back in secondary school...

I have a problem with spelling.

Here's my one-year review.

Ten reasons your wife should get up to shush the baby tonight: You've had a hard day at the office today You've got a hard day at the office tomorrow You did it last time She's better at it You've had a beer The baby is closer to her side of the bed The n…

Working at Twitter is something of a luxury.

Babies are a blank slate.