My journey
Ruby 2.7 has just been released (Dec 25) as the tradition is. That’s the last minor version before 3.0 which is going to be released on Dec 25, 2020. In one year. Here are a few new features that caught my eye. Array intersection There are a couple of set methods you can use with … Continue reading Ruby 2.7
I always had trouble finding a way to copy lines of code in vim when I wanted to paste the lines in some other application on macOS. You see vim doesn’t use the OS clipboard when it copies something …
Year progress: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 91% This week was quite busy and productive. We discovered a bug in Supportress, and started investigating it. I continued implementing payments. We had a great discussion with Ilias on how our existing models match what the payments tutorial suggests. It turned out we already had a model that corresponds to the … Continue reading 2019-W48
Year progress: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░ 89% When I worked at GitHub as a manager, I used to share a short synopsis of the week at the end of each week. I shared that with my team, and it had various items in it. Project progress, thoughts, direction, insights, questions, and many more. I changed formats and what … Continue reading 2019-W47
This is a story many have shared. It is typical. You can get it by asking how one got involved with computers. Most will say, they started playing games. Then something happened and they wanted to see how things worked under the hood. Then they got hooked. The story is the same. What changes is … Continue reading Introducing Sector Five II
I always wondered how it would feel being a GitHub alumni. What would be different? What would catch my eye? Well, now that I am not at GitHub for about 16 days, here’s what I have noticed. Notifications My GitHub and Slack notifications are almost zero now! That’s both good but also weird. Everything is … Continue reading First impressions after leaving GitHub
Leaving GitHub has not been an easy decision. I want to create my own calm company, and in the process create a simple customer support tool based on my 9 year experience at GitHub Support.
If you complain for being bothered in Slack or other real time communication tools outside of normal working hours, it’s your fault. When you have a remote, distributed team, you have two approaches before you talk to a colleague. You either have to check their timezone every single time before you ping them to see … Continue reading It’s your fault people bother you
At GitHub, we rely on Issues heavily. Not only for bug reports, or for tracking feature implementation. We use them for almost everything. This includes, but is not limited to, discussions, announcements, ideas, tracking projects, capturing thoughts or pieces of documentation that will become pull requests, and many more. The problem with having an abundance … Continue reading How I avoid zombie GitHub Issues
When I started working at GitHub back in 2010, I moved away from a 12 year career in programming. I was going into technical support. I was the second support person at GitHub, and the first outside of the US. It wasn’t your typical support position. I was helping programmers and other GitHub users with … Continue reading The cycles of my professional life
