What I love about Google DevRel

Gearing up the Web for 2018

Gears hit in 2007. As we complete 2017, how far have we come and where are…

Some people are TypeScripting

Programmers have debated type systems since the dawn of time, and maybe always will. When communicating with the machine, what level of information should we have to put into instruction for our digital friends? Do we have to be so explicit? Is it worth it? Can they just work…

Tech writers are underrated

I have long seen the Bay Area (and tech industry in general) hold up the engineers, or the designers, as the…

YeSQL? How a Spanner changes the toolbox

The world of data continues to evolve. The last explosion was with the push on the NoSQL…

The Unbundling of Mobile is Happening

Ecosystem Engineering

“An ecosystem engineer is any organism that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat”

— Wikipedia

Platform? Patience

“We are a platform company” — VC pitch

Can Syntactic Sugar be Nutritious?

When it comes to nutrition and food, there is nothing that we vilify more than sugar, as we find out how wrong we were with fat. As programmers, we often poo poo syntactical sugar, but two interactions that I witnessed reminded me look deeper.