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SlimeBallBench was not me, but it is cool! and at least partially what inspired me to build my own. Mine is less fun, but hopefully more useful https://erikwiffin.github.io/memory-…

I've developed a benchmark that I think should be resistant to saturation, is easily verifiable, and anecdotally correlates with desirable behavior (ability to not get confused whi…

I actually started with it as a PWA, but ended up rewriting it in react-native. I wanted a couple features (heart rate monitor, lock screen integration) that afaik don't work with …

Ugh, that happened to me too. But instead of researching other apps and waiting for them to decide to go premium too, I built my own workout app. Been using it for a couple months …

As a diver, I'd love to use this and show my friends, but it's a bit hard to get to actual results for a location. Particularly for sharing, if the URL changed to something like `/…

Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Typescript Résumé/CV: https://erik.wiffin.com/ Email: erik.wiffin@gmail.com Fractional Tech Lead with 17 yea…

When I first moved into management, I wrote an article about how my direct reports could get more value out of our 1:1s. I'd probably write something different now, but the broad s…

This is asking a lot from you, but in your situation, I think your goal should be to build up enough of a relationship with your manager that you feel comfortable telling them that…

Ironically, the feature that keeps me from using Goodreads is that I want it to be less social. Do you have the option for private bookshelves?

If Bob had a plan for doing the work that didn't involve Alice's library, there's a good chance he would have just jumped straight in to implementation without talking to anyone, a…

I've always done planning poker with the Fibonacci sequence - 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. The idea being that the more complicated the task, the harder it is to estimate accurately.

I think there's value in that debate (within reason) even as a developer. If Alice thinks a task is worth 5, and Bob thinks it's worth 8, then there's a good chance one of them kno…

I made this transition recently, and felt compelled to write about it. https://erik.wiffin.com/posts/missing-manual-professionalism... One of the things I noticed is that all of th…

It may be the worst domain name ever, but the site only exists because I thought that using "0" as a subdomain was a neat trick, and worked back from there to figure out what to do…

Thanks for the suggestion. I've updated the text.

That's interesting, I had no idea. There's probably a way more detailed Rosetta Code style project that could cover all these nuances, but for a single page demo, there's only so m…

Oh Excel... I'd love to see that up on the site, mind sending me a pull request? https://github.com/erikwiffin/0.30000000000000004

That's 90% of the reason this site exists.

That's valid, but I was going for an ELI5 style explanation of a concept that surprised and confused me at the time. If you want to provide a better one, I'm happy to merge any pul…

The expression comes from a measurement of visual acuity, the correct notation would be 20/20.