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This document is to give people a taste of how my mentorship style works. It is part of a broader workshop that some of the Sr Staff and above folks are running at ZipRecruiter to help equip other engineers to be better mentors. This is meant to give people ideas, help them come up with questions, and start conversations.
No one needs another AI think piece. I’m writing this for myself. I wish I’d started writing about AI in 2023. This is a cataclysmic shift in the world and I wish I’d preserved my thought process so I could look back on it and see how it changed over time. With that in mind this is written to my future self, and includes what’s going on now and some predictions about what’s coming in the…
Quick tip on custom sorting in Notion.
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How I set up automatic updates on laptops.
How to easily serve static files in a Go app.
Write a love letter by being a full stack engineer.
Screen scrape more effectively with Chrome and Puppeteer.
Early review of my goals and the system to think through how well it’s working.
Goals for the new year.
This post is about ethics.
As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time. Typically this is in the form of breaking changes in either a language or the modules that language uses. This morning I ported a relatively simple tool from Perl to Go to escape this kind of tax.
I needed a tool to manage a relational database, so I built one.
I recently used Tailscale to add an authenticated portion to a public website, hosted via Fly.io .
I write Scala a bunch these days at work. The language (or maybe the Spark culture) really wants you to use an IDE. As much as I tried to use IntelliJ I just can’t bring myself to make such a big switch. If you are interested in language servers (which typically provide autocomplete,) Vim, or specifically setting that up for Scala, read on.
Go 1.18 just came out , so I’m looking over the new features.
Do you ever need a C library to cross compile in Go? I got something to work this week that makes me feel better about my cross-compilation setup.
Go 1.18 will be adding Go’s version of generics pretty soon. I wanted to get a feel for how I might use them. Read on for a concrete example.
I spent some of my time off for the holidays learning Rust.
I’m building new habits to meet new goals.