8 Steps to Constructing a Better Software Engineering Homework Interview

A recent trend in the SF tech scene, and perhaps elsewhere, is the take-home interview. I’ve been on both sides of this exercise, I’ve noticed it can have unintended consequences: a bad experience for the candidate and a filtering out of qualified candidates. I’d like to talk about some of the problems, and offer 8 suggestions about how to improve it.

Refactoring and Iterating on Generators

In this post, I delve into writing the same functionality in a myriad of ways. In the process, I'll evaluate some trade-offs, as well as try out generators of Javascript ES6.

Shh! Algolia for the Win

Sitting in our dining room, discussing our kids’ room full of books, I decided to regale our kids with a story about the old days of the library: rows of “card catalogs," little pieces of paper to jot down call numbers, etc. This got them very excited, and they love building things, so they were gearing up to re-create just such a system in their bedroom.