Hey, I'm Nick. 👋

I'm currently a senior software engineer at Shopify. I write broadly about what I learn and observe about technology, living a meaningful life, and communicating well.

If you're new here and not sure where to start, I recommend reading something recent below or browsing by topic.

Update - a new home for new posts: From April 2022, I will be publishing exclusively through my newsletter. I laid out my reason in the first dispatch - scroll to "finding my tribe."

Recent articles

• Please stop saying feedback is a gift
• Why I removed dates from my blog post URLs
• Your remote meeting superpower
• Engineers not developers
• My 2021 Annual Review
• Write quicker tests with console.assert and blocks
• What the duck is Duck Typing?
• How URL shorteners generate 3 trillion unique URLs with just 7 characters
• Counting up in Binary
• What is a cache? What is an example use case?