I gave a flash talk about the metric system at the company’s annual grand meetup in October. My talk was mostly based on what I read in the book Whatever Happened to the Metric System, by John Bemelmans Marciano. I talked way too fast, to try to stay under four minutes. This was the fourth (annual) flash talk I’ve done, and my favorite! It was a fun … Continue reading Units of Measure

A couple years ago I went to Vegas for a meetup with some coworkers. We worked on some projects, I triaged some bugs for their team, we saw a magic show together — the usual Vegas stuff. During our visit Mike Adams entered a new ticket into our internal tracking system noting the need for a baby unicorn to be developed on my behalf. As … Continue reading Acquiring a unicorn