Written by I recently celebrated my one year anniversary as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) trainee at SoundCloud. Looking back, I had very little idea of what I was getting into. I studied politics, and had done various teaching and translating jobs over the years before deciding to learn programming. Now I had a coding bootcamp under […]
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of structure, for example, “here is a paragraph” or “emphasize this word.” Then you stir in some CSS, which adds some pretty decorations to the structure, saying things like: […]
Mastodon is a free, open-source social networking service that is decentralized and distributed. It was created in 2016 as an alternative to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. One of the key features of Mastodon is the use of the WebFinger protocol, which allows users to discover and access information […]
I have been blogging here for the last 20 years. Every Tuesday and Thursday, quite consistently, for two decades. But last year, without planning it, I got tired and stopped. Not sure why. It didn’t correspond with any life events. Nothing interesting or notable happened. I just stopped. I did find joy on […]
The way, us, engineers saw it… Engineering @ Prezi PowerWeek 2022 We came, we saw, we conquered, said the Romans. But this is not Ancient Rome, it’s Prezi engineering and this is 2022. The world has changed and evolved, and as such, our conclusions got a lot more diverse than come, see, and conquer. In […]
A week ago my brother sent a message to our family group: “My team at work launched something! It’s called ChatGPT. Give it a go: https://chat.openai.com” I talked to ChatGPT for ten minutes and then had a crisis of meaning for a few days. I eventually texted my brother back to say well done, because […]
We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready, and drop them straight into your Buffer queue. Now that Ideas has launched in our web and mobile apps, we have some time to share some learnings from the development of […]
Are you building a Gameboy emulator? Are you stuck? Are you failing Blargg’s test ROMs and can’t work out why? Gameboy Doctor can help! (GitHub link) What is Gameboy Doctor? Gameboy Doctor is a tool that compares your emulator to an example emulator that passes Blargg’s test ROMs. It finds the exact tick where your […]
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback. We’ll be updating this blog regularly as we actively work to improve the SoundCloud experience for our users, and we’re so excited to share these improvements with everyone. Here are our most recent […]
In an earlier blog post, we talked about how we changed the interview process during remote working as a way of improving our recruiting efforts. In this post, we’ll talk about the training process we defined for the Bar Raiser interview. The Bar Raiser interview is a critical part of the final round of engineering […]