Jun 25 2025
Two years ago I stepped away from my role as VP Engineering at Klue . It wasn’t the first time in my career that I’ve taken a non-linear path, but still a risky step. Jason Smith and his whole leadership team were incredibly gracious in supporting me in the move. The timing was perfect in that Klue had just made our acquisition of DoubleCheck Rese…
Jan 31 2023
Hey, check out my new role! 🎉 I’ve decided to step back from executive life to get hands-on again. I’ll be leading a new team at Klue whose mission will be to capitalize on our recent acquisition of DoubleCheck Research. 🤘🚀 Klue’s platform + DoubleCheck’s Win-Loss analysis = 🔥🔥 Besides being a great fit with my background in building software for m…
Jun 23 2021
Leaving AWS wasn’t an easy decision for me (thanks again everyone at AWS Thinkbox). I’ve been watching/cheering on Klue for a few years though, and having worked with co-founder Jason Smith I had a huge amount of trust in his vision and leadership. That said, I think it took seeing Klue “in person” before knowing just how right this decision was. T…
Sep 17 2019
Super excited to be in #Prague this week recruiting for #aws #thinkbox! This is a beautiful city (and a cool office). I’m looking forward to meeting our candidates and hopefully attracting even more great talent to the growing pool of world class software developers in #Winnipeg. Originally posted on Linked at UTC: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:48:47 GMT (UT…
Apr 3 2013
Being a relative newbie to git I really appreciate the Atlassian's new SourceTree app. FreeEasy to startDeep feature set The last few GUI git clients I've tried attempted to mask the complexity of the git feature-set whereas with SourceTree I feel like I can actually explore that feature set. I've already begun embracing branching way more as a re…
Feb 16 2013
I just switched from the built-in Terminal.app on Mac OS X (which I've always liked) to iTerm2. Here's some of what I like about iTerm2 : borderless windowsbetter scrolling and mouse support (or better defaults?) I can use my scrollwheel in vim by default and clicking on a word moves the cursor which is a nice bonus (behaves like unix) feels faster…
Feb 15 2013
So this week I met with someone who was very excited about working with Google Dart, a web programming language aimed at being a better JavaScript running both on the server and ultimately the client where the VM could run in browsers (only chromium for now). When Google first announced Dart in September '11 I thought "cool, too bad it will never w…
Feb 14 2013
I "grew up" on vim, which is to say my second professional programming job 15 years ago required me to spend vast quantities of time in a terminal to a Solaris machine on which I used vi exclusively to get work done. In those two years I got relatively proficient at navigation, search and replacing, using registers, and tweaking .vimrc with custom …
Oct 27 2011
Three weeks ago I finally decided to pay for GitHub so that I could keep some of my new projects private without giving up the beauty that is their cloud based source control. Last night I decided to try BitBucket's new FREE offering and see whether I could save myself $7/month. Literally fifteen minutes later I was deleting my private repo's on Gi…
May 27 2011
My memory is awful, it really is. I maintain a private personal blog which I use for capturing extremely short pieces of content that I want tagged and timestamped. Works well for those random thoughts that are maybe not suitable for sharing but which I want to capture nonetheless. Anyway, I'm looking for sometime similar to aid my memory at work a…