Sep 18, 2016 · 3 minute read
In “Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked”, Zach Holman points out that we all benefit through sharing the efficiency-boosting tips, tricks, and tools many of us have in our dotfiles, and I completely agree.
However, I think it’s important to draw a distinction between the tooling around dotfiles, and the content of the dotfiles themselves.
The tooling – which handles the grunt-work of applying the dotfiles configuration to a computer – should be quite consistent between all of us.
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Jun 6, 2015 · 2 minute read
A quick and dirty proof of concept for a virtual reality Teespring campaign page, created as a potential hackathon project
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Feb 11, 2015 · 4 minute read
The tl;dr At the moment – and for the foreseeable future – the power balance of hiring negotiations favours the engineering candidates rather than with the hiring company. One consequence of this is that any attempt to hurry, strong-arm, or manipulate candidates will likely be ineffective, and could potentially backfire horribly.
This is how I became one such backfire.
The offer I had been lucky enough to receive an offer to join Widget Co.
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Jan 16, 2015 · 1 minute read
Their "seminal" new product.
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Jul 5, 2013 · 3 minute read
Taking "Not Invented Here" to a whole new level.
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Mar 17, 2013 · 4 minute read
A punch box is an easy DIY project that's perfect for gifting.
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Mar 12, 2013 · 4 minute read
In April 2008, I’d just finished an arduous Y Combinator cycle. I was living in San Francisco with some friends: holed away in the basement, putting in impossibly long hours with my co-founders and class mates.
I’d been back home to the UK briefly a couple of weeks earlier, partly for immigration reasons but mostly to visit my grandpa who was in hospital, dying of cancer.
As usual, I’d made the trip with United Airlines.
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