Albert’s Programming Tips

8 months of Software Engineering in San Francisco

For all of you who read about my first month at my…

My first month at Samsara

Hi! I’m Albert, and I’m a software engineer living and working in San…

I got a new job!

I’m really excited to start my new job as a software engineer at Samsara today.

I know I have a lot to learn in order to succeed with my new team, but I’ve been working hard for the past 6 months to get this opportunity, and I want to savor this moment and all the process…

Journal — Look both ways before you code

My accomplishment of the day was realizing that a feature that I’d been scoped to work on for 1 week to build was ALREADY BUILT! Here’s a summary of how this played out.

Ruby on Rails — What is counter_cache ?

Recently, I wanted to verify something in the Magoosh code base:

do we still increment users.answers_count ?

I did a cmd-shift-f in my editor and looked for instances of a .answers_count code snippet and…