Alex Collins Software engineering There’s a plush octopus in a bobble hat sitting on my desk. I pointed my phone at it, pressed the shutter, and the phone said: “a plush toy of an orange octopus wearing a blue and black striped hat and scarf, holding a...
At 2:41 this morning, Apple approved my first app. It’s called Corpospeak: In Your Voice, and it’s free. You talk, and it says your sentence back to you as fluent corporate jargon, in a clone of your own voice. Say...
About ten years ago I wrote a book for Manning, on Selenium. It took me something like a hundred hours, most of them evenings and weekends. That book was written the way books have always been written: by one person...
Confession time: despite spending the last twenty years deep in backend infrastructure—wrangling workflow engines, Kubernetes, and distributed systems from my home office here in Walnut Creek—until this summer, I had never...