How We’re Working, 2024

This is a blog post about housing in Seattle, but I hope it leaves the reader with new perspectives in their own cities when it comes to addressing affordable housing and homelessness. We should remove policies that try to decide how and when housing developers profit, because that thinking does more harm than good. A Personal Anecdote I had the...

It’s been a busy year for Scholarly. At this time last year, we were just closing our first contracts after having been in business for 6 months. Since then, we’ve raised a seed round, achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, grown our customer base substantially, and expanded our team. On the technical side, we continue to cut out vectors of...

Early in my career, I fancied myself a frontend engineer. Frontend engineering felt like it had more going on that backend or application engineering. The relatively young language of JavaScript was seeing more uptake after the fall of Flash. Seeing the fruits of your labor in a web browser rather than a commandline or GUI was more rewarding to...

After more than 6.5 years at Gusto, I’ve moved on to start a new company. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work at Gusto and proud of the work we did helping small businesses in the US. The company is better than ever and has an incredibly bright future. We had plenty of fun along the way, breaking apart monoliths or building...

To better understand large language models (LLMs), I put together a free dream interpreter called Dream Diviner. This post will talk about building the app, LLMs, and reflect on this iteration of AI. AI-pocalypse? AI-mageddon? The past 6 months is not the first time computer scientists and the public have been excited about artificial...