As I have been onboarding to a new role at a new company, I've found myself excitedly sending out links to my all-time-favorite blog posts, conference talks, and books to my new colleagues in just about every one-on-one. So, I decided it was about time that I listed all of them out in one place.| KSM
As I have been onboarding to a new role at a new company, I've found myself excitedly sending out links to my all-time-favorite blog posts, conference talks, and books to my new colleagues in just about every one-on-one. So, I decided it was about time that I listed all of them out in one place.| KSM
Earlier this week, Google announced that they will officially start using a subset of web performance metrics known as Core Web Vitals as part of their search ranking calculations starting in May 2021. This is huge, positive news in the perf & SEO worlds. Google's inclusion of Core Web Vitals will act as a much-needed forcing function to encourage sites to improve their performance.| KSM
I was interviewed by Will Larson for his project documenting the Staff Engineer career path at StaffEng.com. We chatted about my experience as a Frontend Architect at Etsy and my thoughts around the qualities that make a great Staff engineer.| KSM
Welcome! I'm blogging about my learning process to create a Live Git Viewer app using React, Node, ES6, etc. You can read more about the project and the impetus behind it in Getting (re)Started.| KSM
So, for a while now I've had this cool idea to make a live git visualizer based on the way I represent the different git environments & behavior in my talk Git-ing Out of your Git Messes. You can get a sense for what I'm talking about in this video I made from some of the slides in that presentation:| KSM
(NB: This post was originally published at The Pastry Box Project)| KSM
Weathering uncertainty and change with agile process| sylormiller.com
Bullet journals are a powerful, flexible tool that helped me finally get organized and gain control over my overwhelming to-do list. In this post, I'll go over the system, and how I use it every day.| sylormiller.com
When Staff+ engineers transition from a team lead to an org-level lead, the increased ambiguity often leads to feeling lost and overwhelmed. This article explores the "Performance Cliff" phenomenon and offers practical strategies to adapt, stay organized, and redefine success in a leadership role.| sylormiller.com