“Where am I going?” I didn’t intend to be annoyingly coy or secretive. There is no bag, and certainly no cat to let out of it. I’m not going to some super secret stealth startup. I’m taking some time to spend on some of my own projects. TodaysMeet and BundleScout are the big ones....
Read more →Nearly four years ago, I moved West to join Mozilla. About a year later, I moved East to come home to New York. I consider those two of the best changes I’ve ever made. Now Spring is here again and it’s time for another change. Last week, I announced to the company that I...
Read more →Over the past 24 hours, support.mozilla.org has recorded a few dozen errors. That’s pretty good. In the past three days, it’s more like a few hundred. These are sporadic, little, intermittent errors that, for most practical purposes, don’t happen. The odds are so low that you only see them when you look at all...
Read more →Disclaimer: My opinion, not my employers, blah blah. You know the drill. Every once in a while, something happens that makes a few people scream: “If only everyone used WebKit, everything would be so much better.” I have two problems with this. One you’ve heard a hundred times (monoculture is bad). The other you...
Read more →There’s an old H. L. Mencken quote that’s popular among mathematicians and programmers: For every complex problem, there’s an answer that is simple, clear, and wrong. But both in math and in programming we strive for elegance, anyway. We want the beautiful, obvious solution—even if it may not have been obvious at all from...
Read more →I’ve started this more times than I can count. Including twice this week. You’ve read–maybe you know first-hand–the benefits and drawbacks of remote workers and distributed teams. My team works really well, remotely, but that doesn’t mean it’s all sunshine and roses and unicorns. But here’s the thing, the inescapable fact about remoties: The...
Read more →I’m a little late to the party, but I just got around to reading Starting an Open-Source Project and, as someone who has started several reasonably successful projects, I wanted to publicly disagree with, essentially, the entire article. The article outlines seven pretty big steps to take before you can even consider open-sourcing a...
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