I realized the other day that my favorite form of content discovery is other people’s curated newsletters. I’ve mostly ditched big social media in favor of news sites like NPR and aggregators like Hacker News, but they’re still designed to keep me coming back pulling for new updates. I much prefer Emily Short’s regular Link…
Read moreAbout a month ago a teacher from Switzerland reached out to me with a feature request for https://goodenoughgolfers.com, so I threw together an update. What’s new this week: The Prefer splitting these groups box lets you enumerate groups of players that should be split up if possible. It’s similar to Never allow these pairs but…
Read moreAugust 14, 2020 was my last day at Code.org.
Read moreHello world. The last year was a real whirlwind. I’m overdue to write an annual work update (here’s 2017) and this isn’t it. I just wanted to capture the world I’m waking up into today. We started a neon studio last year and are scrambling to make it fully-functional and useful to artists in the…
Read moreI recently asked a couple of experienced software engineers (on different occasions) this question: Tell me about a bit of useful feedback that’s stuck with you. In each case, the answer was immediate and deeply personal. Each engineer described direct critical feedback they had received from a coworker years ago, about their communication style. When…
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