Most videogames don’t have much in the way of testing. The only big-budget one I know of that has publicly put a large effort into it is Sea of Thieves. My favorite open-source game, Mindustry, does have some but they’re … Read more
We applied six times trying to get into Y Combinator. Not many startups would keep applying to YC this many times. Some rejects fail as businesses, others grow and don’t need YC anymore. Each time we got our rejections from … Read more
I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber … Read more
With abortion in flux in the US, I realized I didn’t have a clear picture of how things looked in the rest of the rich world. When I searched, I found lots of maps, like the following from Politico and … Read more
Startups face many existential risks, from their finances to their technologies. But there is one risk which some research indicates is the biggest of all: 55% of startups fail because of people problems, according to researchers at Harvard, Stanford and … Read more
Something I miss after emigrating from the UK to the USA is the using the name of a yeast extract based spread as an adjective. To describe something as “marmite” is to indicate that people either “love it” or “hate … Read more
Say you want to learn about sleep. You see two articles: “Theory and practice of effective sleep” “Seven insights about sleep” Are you drawn to the second? I am. Of course, I hate myself for this because I’ve internalized the … Read more
At OmbuLabs, one of our specialities is upgrading Ruby on Rails applications through our specialized service called FastRuby.io. In this post, I want to share with you some of the things that I’ve learned while working on my first Rails … Read more
(Also posted on Medium) (03-05-20: This post got a decent amount of attention on Hacker News, Reddit, and Reddit again. Check out the links to see some discussions about the post and language learning in general, as well as my … Read more
This time last year, I showed the internet a little prototype uptime checker I built using Next.js as the frontend, with services running on AWS Lambda. I gave myself one week to put it together. I wrote a few articles … Read more