Posts by Allen Cheung
Hacker News, Techcrunch, and the Power of "Google"
Whoa, what a wild week. As of this writing, this blog has received 26,704 hits total, the vast majority of which came from one article submitted on Hacker News(HN) and linked via Techcrunch (TC) on my phone screening…
From Front-End to Full-Stack Engineer
Front-end (FE) engineering is a relatively new specialization of software engineering, come of age because of the increasing complexity of front-end web development. Its precursor and cousin is the applications engineer - both involve coding an user interface, but FE…
Conducting Developer Interviews
Some comments from my last post and on Hacker News brought up an interesting point: it's not easy to conduct software engineering interviews. If you've ever looked for a job as a developer, chances are you…
How to Score a Google Onsite Interview
You might have heard that Google is looking to hire some 6,000 new employees this year. What that means is a lot of time spent by recruiters looking for candidates, talking with them, and then setting them up with…
The Incessant Whine of Web Designers
I can't be the first person to think that web designers - often, freelancers as a group - spend more time and energy telling everybody else that that their work is important. In particular, it seems like once…
Web Typography, then and Now
I realized today at work that this site's title font-face wasn't loading. Figuring a long night ahead of debugging the WebFont Loader that's trying to grab the Raleway font (it is quite elegant, the…
