Don’t Miss
You looking for more? Woohoo! Or maybe you’re a bot. Welcome and beep boop. I write about building product, teams, and Khan Academy. Don’t miss this lil’ taste of some popular posts:
Building Khan Academy
- Khan Academy’s Engineering Principles
- Email transparency at Khan Academy
- How intern mentorship works at Khan Academy
- Khan Academy Internship, Summer 2012
- How we ran the first and second Khan Academy healthy hackathons
- Required code reviews: the story of Khan Academy deciding to review every. dang. changeset.
Building product
- Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown: a favorite about obsessive focus on UX
- “Shipping Beats Perfection”
- It’s ok to be embarrassed about what your product doesn’t have
- “I don’t understand”: the best developers I know are always sayin’ this
Building teams
- Getting your team to adopt new technology
- Going over the top
- The absolute minimum every developer absolutely, positively must know about mentoring interns
- Laughing at others’ code
- Code reviews as relationship builders
Building on App Engine
- The App Engine Way
- Three minute quiz: App Engine datastore performance
- App Engine Mini Profiler: launching Khan Academy’s open source mini profiler
- A sampling profiler for App Engine