Our Iraqi Interpreter Sammy

I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s. When I was 16, my family immigrated to Israel. A year or so later, my mother won a Green-card. We moved to San Francisco in June of 2001, 2 months before 9/11. Six months after 9/11, I enlisted in the United States Marine … Read more

Are Software Engineers more likely to have boys?

For a while now I had a theory that Software Engineers are more likely to have more boys than girls. I know it sounds like a stupid idea, but I had some strong anecdotal evidence to suggest that I might be onto something. Anecdotal Evidence Here is the list of past 3 companies where I … Read more

AMP Toolbar Is Now Scrollable on Mobile Safari

3 Month ago I wrote how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages, that got some attention. AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, as well as a subset … Read more