that don't sound as smart when I write them down
Preface I recently watched a fantastic talk by Rich Hickey. On the face of it, it's about Clojure's spec package, but the underlying principles immediately hit me as applicable to both language ecosystems that I've been working with in the last few years (mainly JavaScript, and now Go). Working with…
I recently made a commitment to share something new with my team at work - once a week - for the 6 weeks that were left leading up to Christmas. Whilst not all of them are applicable outside of the team, I thought that I may as well cross-post some…
New Years Eve is, without fail, the busiest time of the year for Uber. That means that I'll be spending all of my day (and all of the night and into late tomorrow morning UTC) monitoring the systems that my team and I are responsible for. Whilst creating dashboards for…
I recently presented at ShoreditchJS, a London-based JavaScript meetup. The presentation was on Lumbergh, Uber for Business' real-time policy evaluation system.…
In 2011, when I entered into the final year of my undergraduate degree, procrastination was the norm amongst my peers and I. I doubt that this is any different today, or even that it was different 30 years ago, but with the advent of smartphones and social networks becoming increasingly…