Should I start a company or work for one?
My blog post on O’Reilly Radar: Should I start a company or work for one?
A Crash Course on Design for Developers
This is a talk I gave at TechHub Riga that introduces the basic tools of user-centered and visual design. It’s targeted at developers and any other design newbies...
Introducing Atomic Squirrel and The Startup Checklist
Update: Atomic Squirrel has merged with Phoenix DevOps into a new company called Gruntwork! Check out the Introducing Gruntwork blog post for more info!
From California to Italy
In one week, my girlfriend and I will be leaving California. We’ve sold just about everything we own. Our remaining earthly possessions fit into the back of my Co...
Ping-Play: Big Pipe Streaming for the Play Framework
I’ve just open sourced a library called ping-play which brings BigPipe streaming to the Play Framework. It includes tools for a) splitting your pages up into sma...
Moving to Italy: Our Digital Garage Sale
This summer, my girlfriend and I are moving to Florence, Italy. It’s exciting. It’s scary. It’s insane. And it’s going to take a lot of work.
A productive development environment with Docker on OS X
In this post, I'm going to explain why the way most programmers install, configure, and manage software in development, testing, and production environments is a ...
A Guide to Hiring for your Startup
On April 30, 2015, I gave a talk called "A Guide to Hiring for your Startup", where I discussed what to look for in a candidates, where to find them, how to inter...
Migrating from Blogger to GitHub Pages and launching the new ybrikman.com
Around 2007, I created my home page on a free PHP host and a blog on Blogger. The two websites have served me well for nearly 8 years, but they were long past du...
The Competent Programmer
In literature, The Competent (Wo)man is a character who exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge. The idea is similar to a Polymath or a Renaissanc...