Disclaimer: All opinions are my own You’re prepping for software engineering interviews, you’re psyching yourself up to hit Leetcode, and then your recruiter asks, “What language do you prefer to interview in?” Most tech companies I’m aware of do “language agnostic” interviews, meaning you can pick the language you do…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own I’ve been writing Java for over a decade (I’m old!), but I’ve occasionally flipped back and forth between other languages (Python, Ruby, and if you twist my arm I’ll admit to reading some C#). As a Java fan, I’ve always defended the use of…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Kotlin runs on the JVM, and thus has pretty good interoperability with Java. It’s usually great — you need a library from one language or the other and you can get to it! But occasionally it’s terrible, like when you mix different concurrency models…

Disclaimer: all opinions are my own Over my 10 year (so far) career, I’ve worked at 4 different companies and interviewed about 11 times. Here are my interview stats 1 rejected by the company 3 I declined to pursue 7 job offers Overall those job offers I’ve received 3 counteroffers…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Concurrency is hard! Like many of you, I spent a fair amount of time on it in undergrad, and only when I was forced to after that. So today I’d like to run through some of the tools available for shared mutable state management…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own I might be too dumb to use type inference. I’m pretty used to writing Java, and in Java types are explicit, possibly even verbose. For example int meaningOfLife = 42; Tells us we have an int type, the name is meaningOfLife and the value…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own There are certain types of problems that are common to software engineers. I’m not very creative so I find myself saying the same (kinda dumb) things every time I encounter them. I figured I’d write them down for posterity. Sometimes getting to the problem is the hardest part It’s surprisingly common to find…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Every system has a bottleneck. This is true whether you’re building mobile applications, websites, or writing code for PLCs. This is true whether you operate a SaaS product or an embedded system. This is true whether you operate on transactions per second, streaming video…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own As a software engineer, I do a surprising amount of writing Design docs Blogs like this one (ha!) Feedback for performance reviews Documentation for products I work on Explanations of problems and solutions Chat messages for individuals and my team Emails (as little as…