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Best Things this Year (2017)
Every year I write a recap of things I did and enjoyed. 2017 was packed. I re-read my 2016 recap and there’s a lot of despair, but I’m glad it didn’t slow me down. Maybe it was motivating. TV / Movies Twin Peaks: The Return Silicon Valley The Leftovers The Big Sick Coco Get Out…
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Collingswood Porch Fest September 23, 2017
I’m playing this Saturday at the Collingswood Porch Fest on my porch at 12:30PM. Facebook event link
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15 things I’m doing after OpenVisConf 2017
Today was the last day of the incredible OpenVisConf in Boston. I’m still digesting everything from the two days of talks, but here is my general plan. 1. Taking screenshots of my work in progress. So many of the talks had in-progress shots that showed their design and thought process and it made everything easier…
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Best Things this Year (2016)
What a year. Every week another beloved celebrity passed away and our electoral system gave us a 2.9 million vote loser as president. People I love voted for a guy who bragged about sexually assaulting women, thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax, and wants to build a registry of muslim Americans. But her email…
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Is the NJ E-ZPass Website That Bad?
I wrote about this on Medium recently.
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Spoil Your Meetings
You just got a calendar invite your boss. What’s going on? Are you getting fired? Your last performance review was fine! You walk to your boss’s office. HR is sitting there with her. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. HR walks out as you walk in. You sit down, and your boss says, “Hey I…
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Blogging on Medium
I wrote a few blog posts for work using Medium and they were pretty good. Use an Updated-At Column in Your MySQL Table (and make it update automatically) Multidimensional Engineering Management The latter even included my first published D3 block! Medium is an interesting blogging tool. Sometimes I love the UI and sometimes I find…
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Real Work
I want to talk about real work and fake work. We have 1:1’s, standup meetings, team meetings, check-ins, all-hands, and serendipitous meetings at the coffee machine. How long did you spend writing google docs, emails, slack chats, gchats, hipchats, and wikis? What percentage of your day comprised of tuning your vimrc/emacs/bashrc and organizing your trello…
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Best Things This Year (2015)
If 2013 was the year I shook up my life, and 2014 was the year I learned how to succeed in it, 2015 was about challenging myself not to accept the easiest trajectory. 2015 was a busy year and it threw interesting things my way. Sometimes that was difficult, even hopeless, but I will never…