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
Claude Code used to feel like an extension of my brain. Now I fight it to get work done.
This blog post is a collections of programming books that comes up most often in various discussion on this subject. The data was Scrapped/Polished with LLMs so take it with a grain of salt. Rank Book Title Authors Mentions 1 The Pragmatic Programmer Andrew Hunt, David Thomas 7 2 Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann 6 … Read more
Implementation 1. Getting OpenAI API Key 2. Install OpenAI module In your command line run 3. Generating the Transcript Modify and run the following Python script Example Back Story from 2018 In 2018 I wrote a blog post titled Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API. Back then, the task was … Read more
I wrote the following tool to do load test on Google Cloud PubSub. It’s a pretty simple but effective tool to generate a lot of data. This assumes user is using gcloud auth application-default login for credentials. In this particular examples: Every third request is adding a different attribute. Python dict as a payload that … Read more
Recently I was working on a fun idea, that was going to take me longer than one week to complete. Towards the second week I found myself dreading going back to work on my “fun” project. I wasn’t sure why… Was I no longer excited about the idea? Was I just too tired? Was I … Read more
What does 1 + 2 + 3 equal to? It was 6, not anymore. Apple released its new operating system (iOS 11) for iPhone on September 19, 2017. One of the updates was a redesigned calculator app. Mid October, a post titled “Try quickly typing 1 + 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator. … Read more
Few days ago I decided to find a Stopwatch app for my Mac. I went over to the App Store and noticed that there were no good free options available. I thought to myself, how hard would it be to make one with Electron? Turns out, it was very easy. Getting an Electron shell running … Read more