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Sep 3, 2020

Build terrible things

An edict for mid-level engineers — 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…

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Build terrible things
Build terrible things
Software Development

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Medium Engineering

·Aug 22, 2017

💚 → 👏 👏 👏

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. …

Software Engineering

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💚 → 👏 👏 👏
💚 → 👏 👏 👏
Software Engineering

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Medium Engineering

·Jun 19, 2017

Emoji in the editor! 🍾 🙌 🎉

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…

Emoji

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Emoji in the editor! 🍾 🙌 🎉
Emoji in the editor! 🍾 🙌 🎉
Emoji

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Medium Engineering

·Nov 1, 2016

Inline code!

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…

Programming

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Inline code!
Inline code!
Programming

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Sep 7, 2016

emma.README

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. …

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