Since my last post about leaving Python, my career has shifted further.
Earlier this year Mozilla shut down its Labs group. It’s a little hard to tell – I guess we didn’t actually shutter anything, and though it was announced internally it is entirely unclear externally. But Mozilla Labs …
This year I’m starting to understand what it is to be middle aged. I think I became middle aged in 2011, but this year maybe I know what that is.
When I was young I viewed middle age through the lens of a young person. I would think: to …
Management is new for me. I have spent a lot of time focusing on the craft of programming, now I focus on the people who focus on the craft of programming.
During the fifteen years I’ve been participating in something I’ll call a developer community, I’ve seen …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services
When Labs closed and I entered management I decided not to do any programming for a while. I had a lot to learn about management, and that’s what …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services. My previous and first post was Conception.
As I finished my last post I had a product idea built around a strategy (growth through social tools and sharing) and …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services. My previous post was The Tech Demo, and the first in the series is Conception.
The Minimal Viable Product is a popular product development approach …
In my last post on management I talked about a Manager Tools series, and summarized it as:
The message in these podcasts is: it is your responsibility as a manager to support the company’s decisions. Not just to execute on them, but to support them, to communicate that support …
I’ve been trying to work through a post on technology choices, as I had it in my mind that we should rewrite substantial portions of the product. We’ve just upped the team size to two, adding Donovan Preston, and it’s an opportunity to share in some of …
One of the bigger changes going from engineer to manager was to redefine what I meant by the question: how are we going to do this? As an engineer I would deconstruct that question to ask what is the software we need to build, and the technical barriers we need …