Hi there 👋 , thanks for stopping by
I'm here a lot, building data-intensive products from the ground up. I'm bullish on, and a big booster of:
🌿 💚 @bazelbuild and generally using functional principles to keep things sane. (I've open-sourced a few tools for the Bazel ecosystem, see below)- good old-fashioned books
📖 . Two recent favourites are The Road To Wigan Pier and Why We're Polarized - Effective Altruism. Helping, not harming. Doing, not having. Building, not consuming.
Computing is pop culture. [...] Pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating, It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future—it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]. - Alan Kay
✊🏾 Black lives matter. (Software is political)