Enlightened employers will work on culture instead ...
October 31, 2023
ProPublica is hiring a senior web developer.
You’re familiar with ProPublica’s reporting even if you’re not sure about the name. They’re the newsroom that reported on Justice Clarence Thomas’s close relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow; on TurboTax’s misleading practices that coerce low income tax filers into paying for its product; ...
October 27, 2023
I kind of miss having something like a LiveJournal.
If you missed its heyday about twenty years ago, LiveJournal was a private blogging community that led to much of what we know as social media. You could follow your friends, and they could follow you back if they wanted; your posts ...
October 26, 2023
I’m looking for new adventures! These might be:
A full-time position
A paid board or advisory position
A long-term contract
Maybe there’s a me-shaped hole in your organization! Let’s talk.
What do I do?
I’m an experienced technology leader and strategist with an engineering background.
I’ve spent years working in leadership teams, including:
Chief Technology Officer at startups ...
October 23, 2023
AI has the potential to run our lives. We shouldn't let it. ...
October 23, 2023
I’ve been increasingly uncomfortable with how links show up on this site, and their intersection with longer-form blog posts. Last night I made a few adjustments:
Blog posts and links on the site now have the same font size, resetting the information architecture to display them as equals.
Link posts more clearly ...
October 19, 2023
I thought it would be interesting to detail some of my day-to-day setup, Uses This style. This week I'm completely independent, so I'm only using my own hardware and software, which feels like a good time to take stock. This is my stack - I'd love to read yours!
Previously; also ...
October 19, 2023
I’ve made a few updates to my technical assessment rubric, which is designed to help guide teams as they assess whether or not to adopt new internet services and software libraries.
The response has been pretty great: some folks have described using it in practice, while others have sent me suggestions ...
October 19, 2023
The attack by Hamas in Israel was an atrocity: a brutal act of terrorism. The images and stories are horrifying.
Removing electricity and bombing the shit out of one of the world's most densely-populated areas, and requiring over a million people to vacate their homes at short notice when they have ...
October 16, 2023
It’s impossibly hard to watch coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Thousands of people on both sides of the border have been killed (1,300 in Israel, 2,000 in Gaza at the time of writing); the stories that have emerged are brutal. What is known to be true seems to be different ...
October 14, 2023
This blog has had kind of a weird relationship with comments since I started it ten years ago. My previous blogs, in contrast, have always intentionally been spaces that can be homes for conversations. Over the years lots of people have asked me to fix this situation.
So, okay! Here’s what ...
October 9, 2023
I have a lot of admiration for Eliot Peper, who has spun a career in tech into a career in writing science fiction novels rooted in the intersection of technology and society. They’re fun reads, first and foremost, but there’s always an insight into how technology is made, and what ...
October 9, 2023
It's a useful feature - but a problem for the ecosystem ...
October 5, 2023
An ethical framework for selecting technology vendors ...
October 4, 2023
A regressive symbol of conformity and repression ...
October 2, 2023
Interesting links from the last month. ...
October 2, 2023