[Coffee. Code. Repeat.]
This piece was originally published by my alumnus, Northeastern University’s Khoury School Of Computer Science. You can read the original here. Robby Grodin listens to vinyl records while he codes. For one thing, putting on a new Yellow Eyes album gets him up out of his seat every 20 minutes;…
Leave a CommentThis post was originally a release note I sent while working at Wayfair, and is now a blog post on their Engineering blog. I’d be remiss to republish without noting that while this perspective piece sounds fairly dogmatic, it shouldn’t be taken as such. ORMs are useful tools in any…
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7 CommentsA few years back I built a twitter board for my friends at Metter Media. The prototype worked well and got a lot of use, but we decided it was time to make a real product out of this concept. Building an asynchronous streaming Twitter display board with admin controls…
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Leave a CommentAfter an incredibly busy year of events, I’ll be taking the month of November off to focus on family time and getting Wayfair ready for our biggest time of year. I have a few classes at General Assembly in early December, listed below But first, I just wanted to mention…
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Leave a CommentI get a lot of people asking about my various classes and speaking events, so I figured it would be fitting to write a monthly “What’s Happening?” post to keep everything in one place. Here’s a brief overview of the events I have planned for October: October 5th: Talk Data…
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Leave a CommentIt’s never been more simultaneously easy and difficult to find career advice. If you follow, for example, Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, or Forbes on any social media channel, you know that there are thousands upon thousands of articles that claim to have the right answer when it comes to changing…
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Leave a CommentMy focus in an engineering org is to increase the quality and health of the codebase. Nobody wants to work in a code base infested by monolithic legacy files. In my time working with enterprise services I have experienced many different stages of code health. At their biggest, companies suffer…
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Leave a CommentAs Daytime Coordinator, I’ve dedicated the past 6 months of my life to Together Boston, New England’s largest Art, Music, and Technology festival. I was able to have a huge impact on the festival experience, and with the help from the steering committee, promo team, and various volunteers, we’ve paved the…
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Leave a CommentIn designing the Toscanini interface, I used the Texas Instrument EZ430 Chronos development kit to record accelerometer information. The watch is simply an enclosure for the CC430 system, complete with a 3-accelerometer array in XYZ configuration, pressure sensor, and temperature sensor. For an extra $50, they’ll throw in an extra…
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Leave a CommentAttended my second music hack day, hosted by The Echo Nest at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge. For those of you who are unfamiliar, I developed the Toscanini system at the event last year (click the link for the first blog post about Toscanini). The premise is this: hackers gather at…
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