A headless CMS (content management system), is one that provides APIs to retrieve…
When people ask me what a VP of Engineering does, I like to reference the analogy Mark Suster used…
This is my first ever blog post on the Internet. I am just going to express what I feel. I could have written about some technical post to do this and do that. Today, while taking shower something just stuck me about the thing that excites me after my morning starts. It was “going to work…
I recently converted a Gulp + Browserify build for a large production app over to Webpack. While there were many pitfalls and a few failed production deploys along the way, it all came together in the end. One of the biggest sources of frustration was getting long…
Being one of a few mobile developers at thredUP, other engineers are often horrified looking at the supposedly “bloated and wordy” syntax that make up Objective-C and Cocoa (Touch). Yes, our method declarations are long and there are a scary amount of @ symbols, but inside lies a powerful…
When I first started here at thredUP, one of my primary responsibilities as a junior engineer was to handle the html coding and building of marketing emails. Although not considered to be the most glamorous job in the biz, it was made…
Anyone who’s been writing code for a couple of years has likely heard the quote “premature optimization…