A Product Manager’s Job

Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in…

Beautiful Node APIs

Beautiful APIs in Node

The Great Works of Software

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply…

Node.js in Containers Using Docker

Container technology is one of the best options for software development and deployment. It allows…

Money and Open Source

tl;dr - The current situation isn’t optimal

We need to figure out better ways to fund open source software. This is a problem I’ve thought a lot about over the last few years, and what follows is a long exploration.

Why it might be the time to start looking for a new profession if you are a software engineer?

SICP and Me

I am a bit late but it is still great!

The Power of Context in Software Engineering

Or, Where 10x Really Lies

It seems like every single company I’ve worked for, or interacted with, is currently striving to find the “10x” engineer, the rock-star developer, the genius game-changer software…

Learn C, You Cheater

I started learning Objective-C about three years ago while I was studying music in Nashville, TN. Some time during high school, I had poked around in C++, but I didn’t understand it. By college, I was already familiar with “C-looking” languages like PHP and JavaScript, so enough of what I…