Lessons from my PhD – Austin Z. Henley Austin Z. Henley Assistant Professor 12/27/2021 Most of what I learned during my PhD had nothing to do with my dissertation topic, grad school, or even computer science. These lessons are so … Read more
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed … Read more
The inspiration for this post is Željko Filipin’s post on the same topic. Nobody worked remotely during the pandemic, but everybody worked from home. During the pandemic, office workers had to adjust to working out of their homes. But remote … Read more
Earlier this year, we took Notion down for five minutes of scheduled maintenance. While our announcement gestured at “increased stability and performance,” behind the scenes was the culmination of months of focused, urgent teamwork: sharding Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a … Read more
What I learned from my first two years as a data scientist Intro I finally escaped from (grad) school in 2019, spent two months interning as an assistant trader at FTX, and have since spent the last two years working … Read more
Nick ReeseNick Reese Signature About Projects The backstory behind Elder.js and the thinking behind the 5 biggest design decisions. Almost 2 months ago, we shipped Elder.js v1 and I wanted to do a recap of the lessons learned shipping it. … Read more
Mar 6th 2021 IT HAS BEEN ten years since a tsunami laid waste the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan’s most populous island. The tsunami and the undersea earthquake which triggered it, the largest ever recorded in the region, killed … Read more
