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...
What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?
My answer on Quora to What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?:
How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?
My answer on Quora to How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?: