A deeper dive into Strava's accessibility (or lack thereof). As much as I don't want to make myself that guy who keeps Strava honest, that does seem like a space very much in need of an occupant.

https://www.cyclocosm.com/2021/07/strava-needs-to-start-backing-up-its-inclusive-marketing-claims/

Naming is hard lol

I have reviewed a lot of pull requests tonight. Some Linode SD, the Kuma service mesh SD (with a k8s cluster on digitalocean), and some pull request that touch older code such as the consoles.

Tonight I have been playing with two new service discoveries that will come to Prometheus:

Kuma: https://kuma.io/ - A service mesh that also runs out of kubernetes

What is interesting is that the Kuma contribution potentially leaves the door open for future envoy/xds-based integrations. The SD also supports long polling, which makes the SD much more efficient.

Uyuni: https://www.uyuni-project.org/ Uyuni is like the foreman but for opensuse. It is not trivial to setup and the endpoint used by the SD is not released yet, but I have received a pretty nice test environment.

Mentored at Udacity

Gave back to the Mobile Web Specialist program by reviewing submissions and answer student questions.

Culture is one of the most, if not the most important asset of a company. And there are few things you can do to possibly impact the culture other than interviewing people. It is probably my favourite non-technical task. ❤️

Successfully conducting interviews not only helps you build amazing teams: even if you end up not hiring someone, treating everyone with respect and transmitting your excitement for your work can inspire candidates and their network to generate good vibes and a good outside-in culture and reputation. Not to mention, networking.

It's one of the things I'm proud of when I worked at hims and helped grow the engineering team. And now at Shopify and Shop, I try to do 2 interviews a week. After all, the goal of hiring 2021 engineers isn't going to meet by itself.

Unexpectedly, one of the colleagues I admire the most was lucky enough to get a COVID shot 💉 tomorrow. I chimed in to cover him lat minute, although I had another interview scheduled in the afternoon. So that'll make it 2 interviews in a day. 4 in a week. A new record 😊.

As excited as I am, the best interviews happen when you know just enough about the candidate to generate empathy and make them feel comfortable, but not too much that can trigger biases. So I just read resumes, prepared the problems, memorized solutions and alternatives (according to the interviewing stage they are at).