Mar 3, 2020Software Engineer as JournalistWhen I read Clean Code, there was one passage that stuck with me more than any other. Robert Martin was writing about the structure of code in a way I hadn’t heard anyone do before (he’s referring here to what journalists call the “inverted pyramid”): We would like the source…4 min read4 min read
May 14, 2019Announcing Lingo’s Public APIMany of our customers have been telling us that Lingo is becoming their team’s ultimate source of truth for both brand assets and UI component designs. But there’s a missing piece: for some teams, Lingo can’t fully do its job without a level of automation and integration with other tools…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Apr 3, 2018Collecting a library of NASA images from the command lineWe’re working on some improvements to the navigation experience on Lingo, and I needed a large number of images to upload, in order to make sure the navigation features scaled well. …API3 min readAPI3 min read
Feb 26, 2018Implementing a Command Bus in PythonDuring a recent overhaul of Lingo’s private API service, which is built in Python’s Flask framework, we started exploring a “Ports and Adapters” style architecture. …Software Architecture5 min readSoftware Architecture5 min read
Jan 14, 2018Commit history as documentationJoel Chippindale recently transcribed an old talk called “Telling stories through your commits,” that is an excellent guide to maintaining a useful commit history in git (though it applies to any version control system). One aspect of this post that I want to highlight is the idea that your…Git2 min readGit2 min read
Jan 3, 2018Getting the most out of Redux + SentryOne of the revelations of adopting Redux for state management in a frontend app is the ability to follow state changes precisely through Redux dev tools (available as a browser extension). Debugging is an order of magnitude easier when app state is explicit, unified, and each update can be traced…React5 min readReact5 min read
