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on Jan. 28, 2016
I spent about the last half of 2015 reading only woman-authored scifi. I’ve had a lot of people ask me for recommendations. I’ve been keeping my book lists on goodreads. But, I thought I’d put some here (I’ll update as I think of them). I don’t have time right now to put up reviews of them, but the…
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on Feb. 3, 2015
Every sabbatical must come to an end Last October, after a year and a half with Wavetable Labs, including the purchase of PowerReviews which led to a refocusing of our business, I decided to take some time to work on personal stuff. And thus started the sabbatical that I’ve been on for the past fou…
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on Nov. 24, 2014
I've wanted to put this commenting form on a my site for a while. Unfortunately, I think this could come off as too sarcastic and a bit mean. I pride myself on doing my best to not be mean online; I slip up sometimes, sure, but I try to keep friendly and supportive. So, I hate comment sections. The…
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on Nov. 20, 2014
tl;dr What if a branch had only a day to live? What if you had a single day to either complete your feature or start over the next day? How would this impact your coding? Sometimes you would work hard to cut features in small-enough sizes. For "longer" features that take n days, you would have n-1…
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on Nov. 13, 2014
Throughout my adult life, I’ve been a bit of a connector. By virtue of this, I often am asked to make an introduction for someone; a person I know is interested in contacting another person I know. I have a standard email format that I use for this, but the most recent time I did it raised a few qu…
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on May. 17, 2014
Qualities of Tests When I talk to people about a test suite, I often say that they should satisfy the 3 F's: Fast - They should be fast as possible to minimize the amount of time to get your feedback. Focused - They should be focused and provide you with specific, immediate details on where the fai…