You won’t know of Org Mode if you live a normal life. This page has pictures that will help you visualise it. It is a decidedly un-sexy under-marketed weirdly niche tool for note taking (and a lot more). “Your life … Read more
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t … Read more
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about … Read more
I’ve built safecyclingmap.com, an open-source proof of concept map that renders cycleways and streets down to the individual lanes, to assist cyclists picking safe routes and support advocacy for reallocating road space to more efficient modes (as supported by the … Read more
2021 saw the completion of my first substantial free software project: a TLA⁺ grammar for tree-sitter, the error-tolerant incremental parser generator. The project stabilized & found users over the course of 2022, then over the holidays I used it to … Read more
At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter notebook—with feedback cycles so fast and joyful that it feels almost tactile. Having used them … Read more
Toby Mao Introduction When I first started writing SQLGlot in early 2021, my goal was just to translate SQL queries from SparkSQL to Presto and vice versa. However, over the last year and a half, I’ve ended up with a … Read more
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It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time! Let’s talk about writing your self review. Understand how they’re used – at many organizations managers gather and figure out how everyone performed (often called … Read more
In yesterday’s article, I credited writing skills, not technical prowess, for having the most impact on my career. Many white-collar jobs revolve around persuading others and explaining our ideas — and I’ve seen countless design proposals, promo packets, and escalation … Read more