Writing about software while software writes itself.

Writing

• Dec 142019

  6 Books I Loved in 2019

  Deep Work, Why We Sleep, Blink and more — the books that shaped my year.

  Read more →
• Nov 262019

  3 Things You Didn’t Know About Visual Studio Online

  Cloud-powered dev environments: deep links, badges and tricks you may have missed.

  Read more →
• Oct 202019

  ELC MLMS ’19

  Highlights and takeaways from the Executive Leadership Council’s Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium.

  Read more →
• Mar 102019

  Convey: Pipe between machines

  A command-line tool with one simple goal: make it easy to pipe between machines.

  Read more →
• Feb 92019

  Starting out as a Software Engineer

  Six things I wish I knew when I started out as a software engineer.

  Read more →
• Jan 152019

  Creating a Culture of Innovation & Creativity

  What MailChimp’s Ben Chestnut taught me about assembling pieces from other stuff in weird ways.

  Read more →
• Dec 92018

  6 books I loved in 2018

  From The 80/20 Principle to Bad Blood — key books that impacted my year.

  Read more →
• Nov 112018

  AfroTech ’18

  Reflections on 4,000+ engineers, designers and business leaders at AfroTech in San Francisco.

  Read more →
• Jun 222018

  Spot: Create from PR

  Run a build generated straight from a pull request — motivation, tutorial and tips.

  Read more →
• Jun 222018

  Spot: June Update

  One month after releasing Spot: community feedback, downloads and tweets.

  Read more →
• Apr 302018

  Spot — Instant cloud environments for developers

  Announcing Spot: a new paradigm for instant cloud-connected developer environments.

  Read more →
• Apr 142017

  Commute App on Azure App Service

  Deploying Commute on Azure App Service on Linux — no VMs required.

  Read more →
• Mar 122017

  Setting up OpenVPN on Azure

  Step-by-step: a secure OpenVPN server on an Ubuntu VM running on Azure.

  Read more →
• Feb 182017

  Commute App

  Find the perfect time to leave the office — built in two days with Google Maps and Docker.

  Read more →
• Feb 122017

  The Internet as a Tap

  What if the Internet worked like a tap? An analogy for how data moves.

  Read more →
• Jan 302016

  A Dive into Web Caching

  Why caching matters, and how it shapes speed and responsiveness on the web.

  Read more →
• Sep 272015

  An introduction to Kubernetes

  Managing containers across hosts: deployment, maintenance and scaling with k8s.

  Read more →
• Sep 132015

  An introduction to containers

  Shipping containers, software style — encapsulating programs and their dependencies.

  Read more →
• Aug 302015

  The motivation for microservices

  Monoliths vs microservices: why scalable architectures changed how we build.

  Read more →