It’s been an even busier year and change for Scholarly . We’re coming up on 3 years in business. We’ve raised a small round of funding from our existing investors, grown the team in both Denver and Seattle, and continue growing in all dimensions. I’m trying to do an annual review of a decision to move away from React in ~2023 to see how things are turning out. You can read the original posts,…
We’ve entered the 4th year of the Slop Wars. We have colorful short-hand like clanker , vibe-code , one-shot , and you’re absolutely right! . These phrases capture the zeitgeist. Emphasis on geist. It’s been more than 3 years since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was the inciting incident that’s upended the world economy and changed how we work. This blog post provides some miscellaneous…
This blog post goes into detail on how our company, Scholarly , works. This post should serve as a bit of a memory capsule and a good thing to send potential candidates when they are evaluating us. I hope this blog post is an interesting view into what building B2B SaaS can look like in a way that is traditionally agile: personalized, great software built in cooperation with our customers. No…
Amidst one of the most difficult stretches in higher ed in history, we’re seeing great demand for our platform as Scholarly . As a result, we’re beginning to hire for more roles at the company. One of those roles is a junior- to mid-level software engineer. This blog post is about my experiences running that hiring loop and some observations on the engineering market. It also covers our own hiring…
This is a blog post about housing in Seattle, but I hope it leaves the reader with new perspectives in their own cities when it comes to addressing affordable housing and homelessness. We should remove policies that try to decide how and when housing developers profit, because that thinking does more harm than good. A Personal Anecdote I had the fortunate opportunity to spend nearly 7 years of my…
It’s been a busy year for Scholarly. At this time last year, we were just closing our first contracts after having been in business for 6 months. Since then, we’ve raised a seed round , achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance , grown our customer base substantially, and expanded our team. On the technical side, we continue to cut out vectors of accidental complexity by keeping our technology choices…
This blog post goes into detail on how our company, Scholarly , works. This post should serve as a bit of a memory capsule and a good thing to send potential candidates when they are evaluating us. I hope this blog post is an interesting view into what building B2B SaaS can look like in a way that is traditionally agile: personalized, great software built in cooperation with our customers. No…
Early in my career, I fancied myself a frontend engineer. Frontend engineering felt like it had more going on that backend or application engineering. The relatively young language of JavaScript was seeing more uptake after the fall of Flash. Seeing the fruits of your labor in a web browser rather than a commandline or GUI was more rewarding to me. So, we were all writing JavaScript. I remember…