Writing on the Wall: Custom Whiteboards for Your Office

Back in September we outfitted out or office with walls full of long-awaited whiteboards. Whiteboards are great for brainstorming, and they make it easier[..]

Mark Van Holstyn

Sam Bleckley

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Ember Module Unification

That of dividing things again by classes, where the natural joints are, and not trying to break any part after the manner of a bad carver. -- Plato, [..]

Sam Bleckley

In Praise of Scaffolds

You're probably familiar with ThoughtBot's Bourbon css suite. We at Mutually Human like it a great deal.

Sam Bleckley

From Rules to Strategy: Monte Carlo Tree Search

Go is an amazing game because of how incredibly simple its rules are, and how complex and difficult its strategy and tactics are. Professional Go players[..]

Sam Bleckley

How a Read Query Can Write to Disk: a Postgresql Story

Here's a funny relational database story from earlier this year.

Sam Bleckley

None Pizza and Multiple Choice

You've probably already seen None Pizza with Left Beef:

Sam Bleckley

The Call is Coming from Inside the House

We've been talking a lot about women in engineering lately here at Mutually Human; Samuel recently wrote a post on the subject. I want to write down,[..]

Sam Bleckley

Atom is Buggy, Beta, and Slow

Atom is a text editor made by Github. It's in a large, "invite only" beta. It's got bugs, it's slow, and it's sometimes uncomfortable to use. It's also[..]

Sam Bleckley

Dog Trainers and Pull Requests

This syllogism drives my decision-making when I design and build tools for myself. Let me walk through a concrete example, involving automating some git[..]

Sam Bleckley