2021-04-20
Keep incidents boring
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
Blockchain explained simply
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
2021-04-11
Success and Failure at Pebble
I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…
2021-01-20
Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
While working on Pebble, we ran into a lot of issues as we tried to enable messaging from the watch. For example, we never figured out how…
2021-01-01
Acing the design interview
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
2020-12-29
Here Lies Flash
In just a few short days, on December 31, 2020, we will say our final goodbyes to one of the most important internet technologies that ever lived: Flash. I remember...
2020-12-25
Writing good technical explanations
Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
Acing the coding challenge
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
2020-09-11
Avoiding worry driven development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
2020-08-25
On my way to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s estate and the old airfield. [Werneuchen Loop]
On my way to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s estate and old airfield. [Werneuchen Loop]I’m looking for a way to go back to writing. It took me years to figure out what I’m...
2020-07-29
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Blockchain for beginners
Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making distributed crypto-currencies like Bitcoin…
2020-07-09
The Universal Communication Bus
From the desk of Eric Migicovsky Edit : Interested in what you read below? Check out Beeper , an app that we built to solve this problem…
2020-06-18
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
2020-01-04
A Decade of Product Management
Reflections on the last decade of product management and predictions for the next.
2019-12-05
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So,...
2019-10-31
Prioritization Shouldn't Be Hard
Discover & share this TLC GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. A while ago, I was interviewing a VP of Product...
2019-09-24
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome,...
2019-07-25
Startup School - How to talk to users
2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough - if you look at the products I build…
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