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Thoughts
An open notebook on work, learning, daily life, and occasional technical discoveries.
My first year living in London
Moving across the Atlantic, finding our feet, and making a home in London.
Switching to DevRel from Engineering
The surprises, creative demands, and shifting priorities of my first month moving from engineering into developer advocacy.
On leaving a great job
Leaving Adobe after a difficult year, and making space to recover from burnout.
Improving my content diet
Making room for challenging books and ideas alongside the everyday stream of posts and news.
I made a political twitter account for a week
What a week on a separate political Twitter account taught me about attention, replies, and online debate.
Working with people who are smarter than you
Finding ways to contribute, manage insecurity, and learn from coworkers whose strengths differ from your own.
10 years is a long time
Learning to value steady progress over bursts of motivation, in running, coding, health, and saving money.
A weird login flow
How a broken password reset flow accidentally became my favorite way to sign in.
My first month as a remote worker
The focus, flexibility, and isolation I found after moving from San Francisco to remote work in Florida.
Staying Mostly Safe Online
My 2016 notes on password managers, unique passwords, and everyday habits for protecting accounts online.
Sharing Styles with React and Aphrodite
Sharing reusable Aphrodite styles across React components without passing them through every layer as props.
The Life of a PHP Developer
How dismissing a programming language can discourage the people learning and building useful things with it.
ssh_exchange_identification: read: connection reset by peer
Using verbose SSH output and server logs to track down a connection that closes before login.