A man known for his tech AND his ideas — Pieter Hintjens was probably best known for A Protocol For Dying, a blog post he wrote after learning he had metastatic cancer and only a short amount of time to live. The title was somewhat of a pun, as Hintjens specialized in protocols, but focusing too much on his final…

The series has returned! Yaaaaaay — Like last time, for the sake of personal pride I will not tell you when this story took place. Maybe it was right after college, making it was during college, and maybe it was last Friday. What matters is that this coding interview took place, and that I did not…

A riff on all the “tech hiring freeze” articles — The title is, of course, hyperbole — I once worked with a woman named Maria, and she did NOT want to be a software engineer so she became a product manager instead. Moving on… The elephant in the room right now is the tech hiring freeze, something that started with…

And how it matters for more than just salary — If you clicked on this, I imagine you were probably looking for a post about salary negotiation…and I do not want to make you feel like you wasted the click. So I watched a Mayuko video about it, and a Kevin Naughton video on it, and read a blog post…

Answering the question: Is Pramp really worth paying the price of $0.00? — About two weeks ago I had my first experience with Pramp, and it went almost as poorly as it could have: We didn’t have the mock interview because the system did not work. For the record, I am not sure why this happened — maybe my connection was bad, maybe…

A single comment that made me question why I started this to begin with — I wrote a blog post about HTML, and that was my first mistake — HTML is one of the most controversial things I have seen covered in tech, but to my surprise the post was met with scathing criticism who dislikes frontend frameworks and argues that people who develop frontend…

Just one year ago, coincidentally also on April 1, I founded CORGICorporation to make fun of an mlm I despised. I was hoping to write fake software, fake documentation, fake advertisements, and a fake blog. …

A post I have wanted to write for a long time, even as a not-great-at-math person — I have been delaying this post for weeks and weeks, even though I have wanted to write it since finding this gem on StackExchange. …

Answer: It is because the job title is prestigious, the salaries are relatively high, and a lot of people are willing to fight each other for that — At 202,000 views, this post is still the blog’s most popular by far, continuing to get more traffic than everything else I have written every week — my CodeSignal post is one of the first weeks I have had in a long time where a new blog post outperformed this…