Some Thoughts on Hiring

How do you make your first few hires?

5 Skills You Need To Develop To Be A Better CTO

Advice to my younger self if I could time travel.

The other day I was interviewing a candidate for one of our open Ruby positions. It was mostly uneventful but at the end of the interview…

Online Status with Phoenix Presence and Ember

How to use Phoenix Presence to manage a list of online…

Memory Debugging — A Cautionary Tale

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Samsung Gear S3 Early Impressions

I stopped wearing a watch a long time ago. Right around the time when I got my first cell phone and realized “Oh shit, this thing tells time too.”

You see, I’ve never needed to know the time so urgently that I couldn’t spare the milliseconds to…

The Switch (Back)

A journey from Windows to OS X and back again.

Javascript Debugging Sucks But This Can Help — Blackboxing Scripts

As I’m sure many of you are aware, debugging Javascript can be challenging due to its async nature. I found a spot high enough in our buggy code path to stick a debugger but had no idea where in our code base it was…

On Choosing a Javascript Framework

How I decided which Javascript framework to use at Checkmate and…

Transitioning from iOS to Android

How an Apple loyalist made the switch

How to Keep Coding as an Engineering Leader

Conventional wisdom says that CTOs and most engineering leaders should stop coding. And that’s mostly good advice — I mean you have other important priorities to attend to. Things like innovating, architecting, pondering, presenting, selling, defusing…