Pierce Freeman

Twenty years ago a simple curl would open up the world.

A couple of years ago I built our internal crawling platform at Globality, which needed to be capable of scaling to billions of pages each crawl.

Self-driving metro trains, canal swimming, and cardamom buns that beat Paris pastries.

Public transit is often framed as necessary philanthropy for cities.

Cryptocurrency's real innovation isn't in replacing traditional currency, but in making money programmable.

Decisions of how to get from one place to another aren't made in a vacuum.

A weekend layover that packed in Michelin-star greenhouses, natural wine bars, and realizing bike infrastructure can transform cities.

Working Pacific hours through Paris heat waves when Parisians flee the city and UPS loses your packages for sport.

I default to bare metal where I can.

Mopeds to Sintra castles, coworking for $180/month, and discovering that kite surfing beaches exist outside Hawaii.

A constantly updating collection of content that I highly recommend to others.

Over the pandemic I've been able to work from a variety of places.

There is going to be a new class of travel option: working by day and socializing by night.

What explains the differing pay between talented people in different careers?

We rely on FastText in some of our NLP microservices.

An obligatory post on blog architecture.

Publishing has always been my bottleneck.

It's an underemphasized asset of successful engineering startups: they make developing enjoyable.

Most confusion when building ML features comes at the beginning of a project.

People label AI as anything and everything these days.

NFT's have exploded into mainstream conversation over the last few weeks.