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Review: Creative Selection
Within two chapters, I realized that I may not be the right audience for Creative Selection. A book written by a software engineer at Apple through its revival of the Mac and introduction of the iPhone, it goes through—in…
Repo Configuration and a Difference of Concerns
In the beginning of the year, there was a strongly-worded technical article about monorepos[1], and why they're worse, in absolute terms, in comparison to using multiple repositories for code (i.e., "polyrepo"). The article…
Seniority, as a Measure to Increasingly Undefined Problems
Recently I've come across a couple of articles that go into what higher levels of software engineers do. Namely, the levels beyond Senior Software Engineer[1]—Staff and eventually Principal Software Engineering positions—are fairly common within engineering…
Review: Hit Refresh
As of this writing, Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market cap in the $800 billion+ range in early 2019. It's a spectacular reversal of fortunes, when only a couple years…
Review: NieR: Automata: Long Story Short
NieR: Automata was a critically acclaimed action game with heavy RPG and story elements first released in 2017. Its success was quite surprising: it’s a sequel to a series of good-but-not-widely-loved games in NieR and…
Review: Bad Blood
The meteoric rise and fall of Theranos is fantastical, to the point where reality feels like fiction, and its characters and events seem like the work of an overenthusiastic author. Bad Blood is a book that chronicles the startup, tracing…
