Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix.
Previously SVP of Product at Pet360 and Director of Engineering at LivingSocial.
From Silver Spring, MD. Currently living near San Francisco, CA.
I recently spoke at RailsConf about one of the worst bugs I've ever been involved with, aviation, surgery, and how checklists can help us to deploy higher quality software, faster, and with less stress. Notes My original slides are available for download. I've created a printable version of the checklists... Continue Reading »
Aidan's First Flight at 9 Weeks Old I write this on the plane as we're flying to Hawaii for vacation. Between moving to the Bay Area when our entire family lives in Maryland and taking two trips to Korea to see Royela's extended family we've flown a lot with the... Continue Reading »
Problem OSX doesn’t recognize the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard as a keyboard out of the box. It pairs, and you can type, but you can’t remap the command keys. As a Mac user that makes the keyboard pretty much unusable as I would be forever typing “ç√” (option-c option-v) instead... Continue Reading »
I finished 18 books this year. I did a few things to read more. First, trading a driving commute for a train commute opened up a lot more time for reading. Second, every time I heard of a book I might like to read I added it to a list... Continue Reading »
Problem OSX (at least El Capitan) doesn’t recognize the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard as a keyboard out of the box. It pairs, and you can type, but you can’t remap the command keys. As a Mac user that makes the keyboard pretty much unusable as I would be forever typing... Continue Reading »