Writing
My interview kickoff script, annotated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
When I interview, I say nearly the same thing at the beginning of the interview. It’s a script I’ve practiced and honed over the years . It’s only eleven sentences, but each has a specific purposes. I’ve iterated on this for years, and it’s pretty tightly honed at this point. …
Hire me to help you hire 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Do you have a growing engineering organization that needs help hiring effectively? I can help! I have consulting availability over the next few months to help organizations hire better. I can design your hiring process, write interview questions, teach staff how to interview successfully, or even run your hiring rounds. …
A bit of smart security design from Tiller 4 months ago
I’m trying out Tiller (a service that pulls financial transaction data into Google Sheets), and there’s a nifty bit of security design. Instead of its own authentication, you login via Google. This means Tiller doesn’t need to do any account management, and my account’s as secure as my Google account. …
2018 life update 10 months, 2 weeks ago
"So, what’s new with you?" Um, a lot: Today’s my last day at 18F. It’s been an honor and a privilege to get to work at such an amazing place with such fantastic colleagues. I’ve learned so much. If you have the oportunity to join 18F — take it. It’s …
A reading list for new engineering managers 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Like many engineers, I got thrown into management without any real guidance. I thought management was just telling people what to do. I thought there wasn’t any real science to it; you just needed to feel your way through it. I was wrong: there’s a whole field of study here, …
Speaking
How to Ace a Technical Interview 3 weeks, 4 days ago
A keynote I gave at PyCon APAC 2019
Let's build a web framework! 1 year, 10 months ago
A tutorial I gave at PyCon US 2017
Implementing multi-factor authentication 2 years, 12 months ago
A talk I gave at dotSecurity 2016
Django's request/response cycle 3 years, 4 months ago
A talk I gave at Django Under The Hood 2015
Heroku Under The Hood 3 years, 4 months ago
A tutorial I gave at Django Under The Hood 2015
HTTP in Django 3 years, 4 months ago
A talk I gave at Django Under The Hood 2015
Minimum Viable Security 3 years, 6 months ago
A talk I gave at DjangoCon US 2015
Keynote 3 years, 11 months ago
A keynote I gave at PyCon US 2015
Elsewhere
📌 You probably don’t need a single-page application
Ignore the clickbait headline. This is a really solid breakdown of the cases where SPAs make sense, and where a more traditional (or hybrid) architecture would be a better choice. #
📌 Mozilla IoT #
📌 Home Assistant #
📌 2018 in Review – Ellen Chisa – Medium
I tend not to have the discipline to track my personal data this closely, but I always want to. Anyway—the major takeaway for me here is the “most important task of the day” idea. I do this weekly already, so it’d be a minor (and useful, I think) addition to take up doing it daily. #
📌 A Comprehensive Guide to Using Airtable as a Personal CRM
I also built an Airtable for this, though it wasn’t as nice. I ended up giving Monica a try instead, but it’s not great, either. I might switch back to Airtable and use this as a starting point. #