Category Archives: Technology

Thoughts on and reviews of technology.

The foggy season has arrived

Posted on December 31, 2011 by skastel

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Technical Austerity

Posted on December 30, 2011 by skastel

I’ve been reading a lot of economics articles recently and have been thinking about our current debt crisis. From a Keynesian perspective, the government should be heavily investing anywhere it can to offset the lack of private investment. The politically … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Refactoring

Posted on October 14, 2011 by skastel

I was working on refactoring and updating some code that was written by another team of developers today and eventually found myself in the whack-a-mole cycle of “Commit-Ship to QA-Find Bugs-Commit” for a few iterations. The project had unit tests, … Continue reading →

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Finding an apartment is even harder than they said

Posted on August 16, 2011 by skastel

Back in June I attended O’Reilly Velocity in San Jose and on the first night amidst all the great Ignite talks, there was one titled “How to find a place to live in San Francisco“.  As with most Ignite talks, it … Continue reading →

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Fearlessness is a good thing, sometimes.

Posted on May 31, 2011 by skastel

In the world of startups the short deadlines and shifting business requirements seem to result in some pretty gnarly code in your organization’s repository. Eventually, you’ll have the unfortunate task of adding a feature or fixing a bug in this … Continue reading →

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Building scalable data systems

Posted on May 23, 2011 by skastel

In my tenure at HubSpot I’ve been on teams that have built and rebuilt various data systems and every time we’ve tried to construct “scalable” solutions. We’ve hit the mark on some projects and been wildly off on others. I’m on … Continue reading →

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Nook Color Review

Posted on May 11, 2011 by skastel

I recently upgraded from a no-name Chinese Android 2.2 tablet to a NOOK Color. The difference was astounding. I really liked the skin Barnes & Noble has applied on Android.  It looks slick and operates really smoothly. The device itself … Continue reading →

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