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Why I Left Facebook and Twitter

Though I’m sure this post will interest few people, I wanted to document some thoughts on what brought me to close my Facebook account in 2020 and Twitter account in 2022. I’d been using social media since the dawn of Web 2.0, and I’ve noticed an evolution of the platforms that doesn’t align to the […]

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Recommended Books for Engineering Leadership

I’ve been leading engineering teams for over 6 years, ranging from smaller web development groups to overseeing multiple teams of engineers. My leadership style has been shaped through the experiences, good or bad, that I’ve had during this time. I’ve also learned a number of important lessons from the following books. If you’re looking to […]

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What it’s Like to be an Engineer at 10up

Frequently when I meet with candidates during interviews, I’m asked what it’s like to be an engineer at 10up and what aspects of the job I’ve enjoyed most over the past 6+ years. I usually go into the story of my own personal experience of how I got to 10up and the things I’ve found […]

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Code Splitting Behind CDN Caching

Code splitting involves splitting code into various bundles or components. These files can then be loaded in parallel which can help with performance preventing needing to load huge files such as with your Javascript code. Instead of a single ‘frontend.js’ file, we get multiple small ‘chunks’ of smaller files, which can then be lazy loaded […]