The other day, I casually confessed to some coworkers that I had taken 400 fitness classes through ClassPass in 2015. Yep, I doubled and even tripled up some days. A year ago, I would’ve never thought myself capable of this. One of my coworkers asked if my life had changed…

Thoughts and process of becoming a journeyperson — This is a recap of my talk from February 2015 Engineering All-Hands Guilds at Medium are teams organized around specific domains — they foster collaboration and craftmanship and spread knowledge about these areas. There are currently five engineering guilds at Medium: Web Client, iOS, Node Services, Data, and Server Performance. …

From cartoon dollz to Neopets graphics to Myspace layouts — Creepy cartoon dollz body parts that you could drag and drop I-frame layouts

Reassurance for where I've been and where I’m headed — Dear seventeen year-old self, You’re probably just getting set to go to college now. You've never been to camp, but you imagine this will be similar, except with no curfews, more people, and probably more booze. And you were right about that. But here’s something I’ll tell you you were…

Learning to say “no” — I was recently in the car with my dad when he prompted me with, “If you could go back in time, would you have chosen a different major?” Without hesitation, I replied a solid “No.” With the irrefutable presence of technology in our daily lives, I was admittedly surprised that…