We finished our first #devsummit at #openedx2018 - it was a fantastic, positive group from around the world. Many thanks to the wonderful people who made this happen, particularly Ned Batchelder and Nimisha.

I wrote a blog post about the performance lessons we learned while developing the grading code for Open edX, and how that might apply to future pluggable APIs: medium.com/@dormsbee/xblo…

My carryon for #openedx2019

I wrote a post on the architectural problems with how XBlock Fields were designed, and how I hope we can address those issues in #OpenEdX going forward: medium.com/@dormsbee/xblo…

Magic, coming soon to WebAssembly… The same .wasm file running and using high-level types in: ✨ pure WebAssembly ✨ Python ✨ Rust ✨ Node ✨ The web with no glue code required? 🤯 See how it works ↓ hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webass…

Shoutout to Clinton Blackburn, who recently saved me hours of work on a performance issue by writing a really good commit message three years ago. Clinton Blackburn: I miss working with you. Everyone be like Clinton Blackburn 😛

Want to check out the talks and presentations from this year's #devopsdays Boston? They're online! youtube.com/watch?v=mLh6p7…

An effort 9 years in the making, but we’ve finally made it. WebComponents are supported natively in every major browser

Boiled this out of some observations of code reviews across multiple orgs and teams. Lower right is my home quadrant but I can flex into enabler/mathematician depending on my stress level

Everything Lin Clark writes is amazing, and should be read at the earliest opportunity. This is no exception.

Many people might be thinking about new jobs this week. 2U/edX is hiring: 2u.com/careers/jobs/ Almost all of our software is open source (as Open edX): we educate the world, and give away software so that others can too. (plz RT? thx)

Oh man. Jed Wood at #velocityconf

Malte Ubl Marja Hölttä :) JS parse times on high-end phones + laptops vs. low-end/average are _so_ different. Hope we see more real-device testing as folks realize

The 3D illusions of Kokichi Sugihara, an engineering professor at the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences.

Via monkeyuser.com/2017/todo/

SemVer as dev intent: Major: we broke it on purpose Minor: we broke it accidentally Patch: we broke your workaround for it being broken x.com/KernCanCode/st…

Want to work at edX? We’re looking for an accessibility specialist: boards.greenhouse.io/edx/jobs/10216… We’re educating the world, we’re open source, and we take a11y very seriously. Hit me up with questions. (RT plz? thx)

2018 goals: Make WebAssembly easier to use with JavaScript Here’s what the Rust team is doing→ hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/making…

an amazing directory: /proc