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Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing 21 Apr 2014 - New York City Today is my last day at GitHub. Recent events have given me a lot of time to reflect on what’s important to me, and I’ve decided to switch gears and focus on building something from scratch again. Since visiting the Oculus VR team at their office three months ago, I’ve come to believe that immersive computing (aka virtual reali

Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year 29 Mar 2011 / 29 Dec 2008 - San Francisco This post was written in late December of 2008, more than two years ago. It has stayed in my drafts folder since then, waiting for the last 2% to be written. Why I never published it is beyond my reckoning, but it serves as a great reminder of how I perceived the world back then. In the time since I wrote this we've gro

TomDoc - Reasonable Ruby Documentation 11 May 2016 - San Francisco RDoc is an abomination. It’s ugly to read in plain text, requires the use of the inane :nodoc: tag to prevent private method documentation from showing up in final rendering, and does nothing to encourage complete or unambiguous documentation of classes, methods, or parameters. YARD is much better but goes too far in the other dire

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The Git Parable 19 May 2009 - San Francisco Git is a simple, but extremely powerful system. Most people try to teach Git by demonstrating a few dozen commands and then yelling “tadaaaaa.” I believe this method is flawed. Such a treatment may leave you with the ability to use Git to perform simple tasks, but the Git commands will still feel like magical incantations. Doing anything out of the ordin

Blogging Like a Hacker 17 Nov 2008 - San Francisco Back in 2000, when I thought I was going to be a professional writer, I spent hours a day on LiveJournal doing writing practice with other aspiring poets and authors. Since then I’ve blogged at three different domains about web standards, print design, photography, Flash, illustration, information architecture, ColdFusion, package management, PHP,

Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic 23 Oct 2008 - San Francisco For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious. I lived with Gravatar for nearly four years before that line even became thick enough to measure. As it’s become one of my favorite parables, I’ll save the details of how I came up with the idea fo

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub 18 Oct 2008 - San Francisco 2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can H