Review: The Martian by Andy Weir
An instant sci-fi classic. The premise of how a lone astronaut stranded on Mars could survive is great, the main protagonist is awesome (the supporting cast is fu...
An instant sci-fi classic. The premise of how a lone astronaut stranded on Mars could survive is great, the main protagonist is awesome (the supporting cast is fu...
This book started off great. Fun Forrest-Gump-Esque premise, interesting characters, and good humor. And then it kept going. And going. And going. It kept repeati...
In one week, my girlfriend and I will be leaving California. We’ve sold just about everything we own. Our remaining earthly possessions fit into the back of my Co...
I’ve just open sourced a library called ping-play which brings BigPipe streaming to the Play Framework. It includes tools for a) splitting your pages up into sma...
This summer, my girlfriend and I are moving to Florence, Italy. It’s exciting. It’s scary. It’s insane. And it’s going to take a lot of work.
In this post, I'm going to explain why the way most programmers install, configure, and manage software in development, testing, and production environments i...
I listened to the audiobook version of this book and found it very entertaining. The writing is good–clear, sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious–and Poehler’s re...
On April 30, 2015, I gave a talk called "A Guide to Hiring for your Startup", where I discussed what to look for in a candidates, where to find them, ho...
I found this to be an eye-opening book. I think just about anyone, man or woman, would too. It’s well researched, well written, succinct, and discusses many impor...
A quick, pleasant read, wonderfully illustrated with large, lovely photos. Actually, the writing is largely secondary to the photos, but it does provide some cont...