OrchardNest

I've been reflecting a lot lately about my life and career so far, what forces pulled me and pushed me, and how I ended up where I am. I don…

It's been over seven months since I joined Shopify and I am overdue on a blog post about my experiences so far. I want to give a little…

I've spent the last few months mentoring a number of junior developers – some who have just started their first job, and some who are still…

You've probably heard of scurvy , the disease that would afflict sailors and pirates at sea. It is caused by a lack of vitamin C, a…

When I wrote in January that I was leaving Artsy , I reflected on my career progression: I have become overstretched. Breadth has been…

I'm thrilled to announce that today is my first day working at Shopify! After taking some time off, I'm really excited to join as a Senior…

Today is my last day at Artsy, and I feel compelled to write about something that's important to me. I worked on several different teams…

Hi friends. It's with mixed feelings I'm announcing that, after seven years, this is my final week at Artsy. Saying goodbye is never easy…

For several months, the Mastodon instance I administer has been experiencing intermittent problems with unresponsiveness and timeouts. They…

It's been exactly a month since my wife and I moved home to New Brunswick, Canada, and I realized that I kind of owe this blog a little…

In 2013, my wife and I announced that we would be leaving Canada to "have an adventure", moving to Amsterdam. After our initial Dutch…

When I was in the eleventh grade, I had a horrible English class. My teacher was uninspiring and I was inattentive. It sucked. Meanwhile, my…

Hey! So remember when I started running ? Well it's actually been exactly a year since my first ever run! I'm pretty proud of that, of the…

Last year, I rewrote this blog in Gatsby where it had previously used Middleman . I launched the new site with a blog post ; in the…

When I studied algorithms and data structures in school, one of the first things I learned was that different types of problems were best…

This post comes with a content warning for a medical discussion. I've been blogging recently about a problem with my body for which I…

Content warning for a medical discussion. Ten days ago, my cat started acting weird. He stopped eating and sleeping, he only wanted to be…

This post comes with a content warning for a medical discussion. I haven't talked publicly about this before, but I was actually supposed to…

Last fall, I wrote about learning to run and coming to understand the appeal of exercise. Today I want to expand on that because I've come…

When I lived in Amsterdam in 2014, my friend Samuel ran a weekly meetup, called a "peer lab", at a café near the city centre. You just…

My earliest memories of staying home sick are from elementary school, when I would pretend to be ill to avoid going to school – I was…

I was at an appointment with my Physical Therapist yesterday and he had me do an exercise that I hadn't done in nearly a year. The exercise…

This post is a bit late, but it's better late than never! Today I'll be discussing the books that I read in 2019. This was a good year for…