Author: dineth
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Great read: the man who killed Google Search
…Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results. Yikes. It is yet another story about corporate greed destroying a great products. Passionate write up, well worth the read: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Thanks @Rob for the share. Coverage of Boeing troubles by John Olivier was…
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A week in Phuket
Recently, we spent a week in Phuket (Thailand) to get away from our busy work schedules to just chill by the beach. Phuket is an island at the south of Thailand. It is mostly a tourist island with stunning beaches, bright blue waters, great resorts and delicious local food. Here are some pix!
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Future of the web
I recently had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Asia in Taipei. It was my first time in a WordPress community event. One of the key takeaways for me was that WordPress adoption was in decline. Not only that, behind closed doors, I got to hear that number of websites created on the web overall is…
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Euclidean distance vs Cosine Similarity for text searches
Good article on the topic: https://cmry.github.io/notes/euclidean-v-cosine
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Watch: Pantheon
Great show about living forever. Best sci-fi show I’ve found this year. Check it out!! IMDB
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Thinking beyond your team
Recently, couple of my teams decided to combine their codebases. It was essentially the same application, written twice over to do the UI for a wizard that went down 2 paths. Their backends do very different things. However, the customer sees a very similar interface. After having done the migration, there have been some gripes.…
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Do all software engineers care about customer impact?
I got into a fun chat with my friends about unengaged people at work. Do software engineers care about salary, solving a problem technically (discovery), shipping, or does that work has to have impact in someone else’s life? Of course, different people find joy in many points within this spectrum of outcomes. Interesting question surfaced:…
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Barry to Google on “increasingly aggressive Google”
Worth the read (images in the post). Having been at Expedia, this issue is all too familiar. I hope someone does something. Google should profit share for the data they use to run their business, much like OpenAI should for its data for LLMs. Twitter link Barry Diller emails Google exec December 12, 2019 pic.twitter.com/UjyoDjQei4…
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Play the long game with people, the short game with outcomes
Recently, @henry sent over my 2020 performance evaluation I had shared with him. I was just about to go from Principal to Director role. I’m still trying to get good at this. Such wonderful advice from @AC. Thanks boss! Play the long game with people, the short game with outcomes. Knowing how much to push,…
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Car crashes and sticking to your lane
My team recently made the decision to not have QA role as part of experience engineering. There were a lot of complains on increased workload and not wanting to do testing, including some valid reasoning around testing not being an area of expertise. I’ve heard similar complaints when we spoke about creating dashboards and alerts…