Living and Working With ADHD: What It's Like for MeOriginalWhat working with ADHD is like for me: the focus, the speed and the calm in a crisis, what it costs me, and how I work around it to do well.Career
What I Expect From a WorkplaceOriginalWhat I expect from a workplace: the same respect for everyone, words that matter, decisions that stay made, and leaders who can lead as well as ship.Career
Little Did We Know: The Hacktoberfest T-Shirt and the Pull Requests I Asked ForOriginalIn 2018 I built a repo where a first pull request meant adding your name to a README, then pointed at the Hacktoberfest t-shirt. Eight years on, I'm glad it's gone.Open Source
Moving Off WordPress: 500 Posts and a Nuxt RebuildOriginalIn 2020 I led moving off WordPress for a developer blog: 500 posts, a plugin that stored code in tables, two prototypes, and 30 minute builds cut to one.Career
Why I Left SpeechifyOriginalWhy I left Speechify, where I was Head of Developer Relations: our values didn't line up, and I'm proud of the work I did there.Career
I Thought I Knew APIs. Then I Met Audio.OriginalREST APIs felt easy, even with HATEOAS. Streaming audio broke that. The destination is HTTP/2 bidirectional streaming: feedback while you still get audio.Career
Onboarding at a new company: what I wish I had knownOriginalOnboarding at a new company after years at the same one: imposter feelings that hit harder, domain knowledge that transfers slowly, and remote loneliness.Developer Experience
Working in public vs working in privateOriginalDeveloper relations means producing content in public while the product is being built in private. That tension is harder to manage than I expected.Developer Experience
Sunday roundup: afterthoughts on productivity and paceOriginalA short Sunday roundup on writing about ADHD and productivity, what Deepgram shipped this week, and what is coming next.Developer Experience
What 79 TIL posts taught me about developer contentOriginalWhat 79 TIL posts over six and a half years taught me about consistency, keeping the scope small, and writing developer content people actually finish.Developer Experience
My User Manual: How I Work and LeadOriginalMy user manual: how I work, make decisions and lead, from moving early and sizing risks to the evidence to putting people first.Career