52 things I learned in 2024
This year I took a sabbatical, recorded a podcast with Freakonomics, designed and shipped a tiny modular synthesiser, and learned many learnings. Tom Whitwell designs open source music electronics as…
Close
medium.com
-
-
Could Technological Change Solve the Problem of Inequality?
https://pixabay.com/photos/switzerland-castle-mountains-lake-6276653/
- Advertisement
-
Cooking in Hyrule. How Breath of the Wild ignited a love… | by Coty Craven | Crossplay | Medium
How Breath of the Wild ignited a love of games for a 96 year old woman
-
52 things I learned in 2023
This year I worked on fascinating projects in food, media, storytelling, AI and health at Magnetic, and learned many learnings.
-
Zod: Why you’re using TypeScript wrong
TypeScript can be too permissive regarding external data. In this article, I will explain how Zod can prevent data-related runtime errors.
-
Online Database Migration by Dual-Write: This is not for Everyone
(to be more precise: for almost no-one)
-
Organizing projects and defining names in Go
This is a translation of a post by my teammate, Carlos de Souza.
-
How to Say No
Saying no is scary, but if you do it well a no can feel like a yes. Here’s three simple techniques for saying no.
-
Do You Need an Event Bus? A Quick Overview of Five Common Uses.
Events, which is just another word for messages, are a great way to communicate information between different systems. Apache Kafka is…
-
-
How to Speed up Jest Test Runs by Splitting and Parallelising Them
If you write functional tests using Jest and React testing library for your web apps and prefer writing them over unit tests, then soon you…
-
Why I Compete
“Chris Gethard to mat nine.” The frazzled man shouts it into a microphone. He’s been doing it all day, so I know that hearing my name…
-
-
Technical Debt Has Taken Over The Economy
Technical debt is not just in your software, it is not even in systems and dominating industries.
-
System Design: Fan-Out with Twitter
A fan-out system is a method of distributing data to multiple consumers in a highly efficient and scalable manner. One example of a fan-out…
-
All JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.
-
-
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer
How it is now in your best interest to act.
-
-
William Gibson On Burroughs, Sterling, Dick, Libraries, The Uncanny, The Web
In real life, William Gibson looks like you would imagine. A little older than the Gibson you imagine, but he was born in 1948, so it only stands to reason. He is gaunt and affable, clothes black…
-
52 things I learned in 2022
This year I worked on fascinating projects in energy, media and health* at Magnetic, and learned many learnings.
-
How I used A / B testing to hack my kids
“I wonder how we can get them to sleep more.” This simple thought, expressed by my wife, not even a question, became a challenge to me. My…
-
Henry
Note: I wrote all of this except the last paragraph in April or May of 2017. I changed names as well, except for Henry’s. I’m on the bus to go see my son Henry at the hospital. I have to take him in…
-
-
-
How to Work 40 Hours in 16.7
I used to work a lot — 60, 80, or even 100 hours a week. I let my work be a big part of how I defined myself. I wore those insane hours…
-
-
A very British 2050s
Life in the UK in the 2050s Inspired by Erik Hoel’s post on making good predictions for 2050 I thought I’d take a crack at it. As we are all to some extent…
