Introduction The hiring market for software developers is white hot — so your job opening needs to stand out! But how can you get your remote job posting noticed in the flood of DMs and emails that developers are receiving, … Read more
I recently stumbled upon an article from Mike Crittenden, Write 5x more but write 5x less, in which he shortly explains why we should write more, but shorter. It’s a concept that resonates a lot with me. Since I started … Read more
02·09·2021 I am a self taught programmer. I first started programming as a kid, and have never bothered to formally study this discipline. To me, programming is first of all a pleasant creative pursuit. It’s a bit like putting together … Read more
Previously This is the fourth article in a series about writing an SQL query builder for my feed reader library. Today, we’ll dive into the code by rewriting it from scratch. Think of it as part walk-through, part tutorial; along … Read more
Last year I became fascinated with an artificial intelligence model that was being trained to write human-like text. The model was called GPT-3, short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3; if you fed it a bit of text, it could complete … Read more
This blog post walks you through how to implement a time-series database engine based on what I’ve learned from my experience of writing a lightweight one from scratch. While it is written in Go, it mostly covers language-agnostic. Motivation I’ve … Read more
Gio implements portable immediate mode GUI programs in Go. Gio programs run on all the major platforms: iOS/tvOS, Android, Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and experimental support for browsers (Webassembly/WebGL). There is a unikernel port for running Gio programs … Read more
What does a great resume look like? How do you stand out? I’ve reviewed thousands of product manager resumes. Here’s the sad truth: most of them go straight to the shredder. To write a resume that converts, it helps to … Read more
How to Write an Equality Method in Java by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners June 1, 2009 Summary This article describes a technique for overriding the equals method that preserves the contract of equals even when subclassses of … Read more
Fact: sending cold emails to investors can work. The proof? Factmata raised a $500,000 investment from Mark Cuban through a cold email. Mapistry turned a cold outreach into a $2.5M funding round. Talkdesk, a company with a valuation of $3 billion, got initially funded through … Read more