A few years ago, I was a software engineer at a medium-sized company. I’d been there just under two years, and I was seven years into my career. I was doing…okay. At a glance, I was a quick, versatile engineer with above-average product intuition. I oriented myself in new codebases…
Back in the heady days of early July 2017, I was tasked with adapting the Medium 💚 system into something that allowed variable input. …
Last week I was blocked on product development, so I added an :emoji: typeahead to the Medium editor, because I was tired of ^⌘[space]ing. 🙅🕒
Try it out! Type a colon, followed by the name of your favorite emoji into any Medium post. (Here’s a cheat sheet.)
We already implicitly…
I wrote this on Hatch on Sept. 22, 2016. Presented here with minor edits for clarity. See Hatching Inside Medium for more context.
Check it out: you can create inline code on Medium now! The invocation is ` + any other character. You should see the backtick disappear, and your…
Most of the time at work you’ll find me happy, excited, thinking about something, or actively talking your ear off. Sometimes I’m deep in code land and hard to pull out for conversation. …
