Intrapreneurship = Growth
For fellow eventualpreneur coders - finding higher personal returns launching a product from within an existing company.
Writing
Thoughts on engineering leadership, product development, and building things that matter.
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Design-gineering
Going all in on becoming a design-gineer - tackling complexity through a hybrid role.
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Scaling Design Changes
How to align a large engineering team on fundamental design system changes.
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Content-first Product Development
If form follows function, function follows framing.
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JS Carousels Are For Selling Depth, Not Breadth
Eyeballs scan content. Let them find it.
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Product Engineering as a Discipline
Growing revolutionary teams through contextual ownership and full-stack product engineers.
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Growth in Design Complexity
Keeping design complexity at bay can help keep code complexity low and cycle times fast.
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Avoiding Rabbit Holes With a Time-box of Focus
Rabbit holes run rampant in software development. Here's a really effective last-line-of-defense.
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How do you want to grow?
If you don't know, you don't grow.
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Checking In
Never play catch-up with your buddies.
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Going Global - Adding time-zone support to your rails app
If you're doing things right, you'll need this sooner than later.
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How I became the first hire at Hired
Make polished things and show people.
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Taming a large STI table - descendants_describable.gem
Adding modular validations and regression tests to a large STI table.
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reactor.gem
A Sidekiq-driven pub/sub layer for your ruby app, born at Hired.
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Javascript Function Wrapping
Exploring functional patterns in JavaScript for a whiteboard framework's event-driven architecture.
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Introducing buffer.js
An explicit circular buffer implementation for streaming data in the browser.
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Introducing reticle.js
A framework-agnostic JavaScript modal library for embeddable content.
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Has_Many Form Helper Select Magic
Using Rails' built-in has_many setter for clean multiple-select forms.
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Unobtrusive Dot Hash Access
Monkey patching Ruby's Hash class for dot notation access - a love letter to JavaScript's object literals.