A product engineering tale — Back in the heady days of early July 2017, I was tasked with adapting the Medium 💚 system into something that allowed variable input. With the binary 💚 button, users could tell us when they liked a story, but we wanted to know how much they liked it, in comparison…

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.) Context 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…

All the stuff you’d figure out after working with me for a while, upfront! — About Me 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. …