I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote. I managed the team that built and operated Evernote’s notifications system, handling 110M messages in 2022. After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote, almost everyone ended up getting laid-off. Severance packages come with a non-disparagement clause. I quit on my own terms, so I am one of a few people … Read more
I started this blog in 2013. I was active for 5 years, with a lot of ups and downs. I took a long break and wanted to review what worked and what didn’t, before I started posting again. I go into more detail in the following video, if you are interested. The short version I … Read more
I spent half a day cleaning up my Claude Code setup: 24 skills became 9 (removed duplicates and unused) and CLAUDE.md went from 246 lines to 123. These observations are from Claude Code 2.1.252; behavior may differ in other versions. The biggest lesson: measure instead of guessing. I expected MCP tools to be expensive. My … Read more