In my last post, I wrote a bit about my time at Khan Academy and now I come to what’s next! I’ve joined GitHub as a staff software engineer in the new open source program office (OSPO) team within Communities. When thinking about what I wanted to do next, one thing I came to realize is that I wanted to do more hands-on …

Last Friday (the 13th, it turns out) was my last day at Khan Academy after seven years of a wonderful experience. I’ll write separately about my new job, but I wanted to write a little something about my experience at Khan, where I have worked longer than any other place in my nearly 30-year career. I joined Khan …

Notes for the week of 2021-10-11 Comparison of memcached and Redis for caching Redis does a lot more than simple caching, but caching is possibly its most important function for many people. Ben Boyter wrote a deep dive comparison between memcached and Redis that is worth the read if you’re choosing one or the …

Notes for the week of 2021-09-27 A couple of books on software design I spotted a couple of book recommendations on Twitter that look interesting: A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout Grokking Simplicity by Eric Normand (May be cheaper straight from Manning) These both emphasize simplicity. I looked …

Notes for the week of 2021-09-20 There’s a thread on HN about how bad Confluence search is. It’s been my experience that Confluence search has problems with relevance, and there are some good suggestions in the comments to help. I’m going to round them up here. My own comment was about improving …

Notes for the week of 2021-09-13 Cross-references for Obsidian Last week, I linked to Alexander Obenauer’s lab notes. Since I posted that link, he created an early version Obsidian plugin that provides cross-reference navigation that looks super useful. Estrella: Fast-building JS projects I remember when JS was …

Backlinks 2021-09-13 Last week, I linked to Alexander Obenauer’s lab notes. Since I posted that link, he created an early version Obsidian plugin that provides cross-reference navigation that looks super useful. 2021-08-09 The Obsidian web clipper is a bookmarklet that lets you clip a page from the web to …

Notes for the week of 2021-09-06 Alexander Obenauer’s lab notes Alexander Obenauer is imagining a new OS and has some very cool ideas that overlap with some of the “tools for thought” space. tree-grepper to search your code tree-grepper builds on tree-sitter to allow you to quickly search your source …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-30 Klipse: embed interactive code snippets Now that everything can be compiled to JavaScript, we can get cool tools like Klipse, which lets you embed interactive code snippets into a webpage. Cue Health This is fascinating: Cue Health offers an in-home COVID-19 test, which sends results to …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-23 OpenShot video editor OpenShot is an open source, cross-platform video editor with a bunch of new effects in its latest (2.6) version. It has the ability to track objects in the video and do sophisticated stabilization. Illlustrations free artwork Note the third “L” in …