Time carries me relentlessly I caught some droplets off its vast stream Held them in my agings hands and made ink. I refuse to let it go. We shall remember. 1. Bonding Your mother can see into mysteries invisible to…
Author: thiago.hirai
Breadth
In the spring of 2015, my manager in London told me he was impressed with my technical breadth. I joined his team after a hackamonth working on a code editor with Kent Beck, went on to work on some …
Depth
In this piece I discuss the practice of going deep into a system through a few examples. I believe I do this more often and more thoroughly than the average engineer, giving me an edge when tackling problems and increasing …
Snow
If I grow old enough to forget Or sad enough to despair Or mad enough to lose touch Be a good friend and remind me Of that winter time when my kids were young Help me recall the quiet white…
1wloc
Joining Facebook in May of 2011 was quite a shock for me. I had come from 6 years at Microsoft, at a time a slow behemoth so big that it could probably ship software faster if it had less engineers. …
First Letter to Ben
Everyone will remember this as a dark time But not me History books will talk about viruses, murders, fires, lies But not love, naturally scholars can’t comprehend this mystery What I remember most vividly from this year Is a grey…
Second Letter to Ian
I start with an apology: I’m sorry I didn’t write earlier I took a while because I was afraid that my words wouldn’t be good enough to capture these miracles I’ve seen. That is obvious now; they never will. (Some…
First Letter to Ian
On the night you came into this world Your mother and I listened together Hand in hand To all our love songs The water broke as the second one played And we kept on listening I felt infinite love for…