I’m here in Germany because today is the first day of my new job at SoundCloud. I’ve written before about the fact of this move, but I haven’t yet talked much about why I’m making it…

Between November and December 2012, I built SoundScout as a way to discover up-and-coming musicians on SoundCloud. What started as a simple command-line script rapidly evolved into a Ruby app running on Sinatra, powered by two gems, deployed to Heroku, fueled by Sidekiq workers managed by a…

Since yesterday morning, I’ve been trying to make headway on a new edition of the open letter I write every now and then about what I’ve learned lately. In the beginning, I had five sections outlined: on finishing, coding, noticing, reading, and listening. I started working on the reading…

Books are a huge part of my life, and so every now and then, I like to step back and take stock of the pages I’ve turned. I last stepped back in January, so the edge of July felt like a good time take stock again.