Andrei Stoica

At work the junior engineer sends you some code to review. The code was clearly written in a first draft, and then just iteratively patched until the tests passed, then immediately sent to you to review without any further improvement. They do not care.

The guy on the hiking trail is playing his shitty EDM on his bluetooth speaker, ruining nature... See more

FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more

Digital platforms are largely devoted to making users consume more, faster—think of TikTok’s frenetic “For You” feed or Spotify’s automated playlists. Curators slow down the unending scroll and provide their followers with a way of savoring culture, rather than just inhaling it, developing a sense of appreciation.

In our present technological era, humans have also needed a new framework to avoid drowning in the daily firehose of entertainment, media, and information. Given this setting of increasing complexity, it becomes more appealing to use an associative concept like “vibes” as a simplifying framework for understanding or self-expression. If we can’t... See more

I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik https://t.co/8lJQifwyqD

These days, code that runs in the browser uses ES6 modules. Modules are defined with an export and included in the current file with an import.

Node.js uses CommonJS modules. The reason for this is that the Node ecosystem needed modules long before JavaScript supported them in the language specification. Currently, Node also supports the use of ES6... See more

Meredith Clausen similarly describes the Roth’s in her history of the Pan Am building:

A large measure of the firm’s success was due, as Richard Roth was later bluntly to explain in his essay, “High-Rise Down to Earth,” to their aim “not to create masterpieces” but to provide buildings that worked efficiently and economically for their clients:

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