Todd Wolfson

How I orient around operational processes, when to invest time in them, and when to not

Lessons from being a 3x first engineer, former Uber engineer, and working at even more startups

Explanation of dancefloor prototype for Cone Down

Rundown of construction of a giant upside down ice cream cone art project for Burning Man

Story of how I helped build a giant rainbow at Burning Man

Summary of a lantern wall I recently finished making

My journey debugging and fixing a EL wire circuit

Catching up on life events since launching Find Work

An approachable introduction to the dot product and its uses

How to test/prevent elements invisibly blocking other elements

Detailed explanation of my job search, leveraging Find Work

A behind the scenes look at me building Find Work

Summary of events leading up to Find Work launch and next steps

Comparison of parallelization techniques for visual testing

How to make code reusable in Mocha (BDD)

Explanation of how to make repositories resumable for yourself and others

Information about where to find non-programming related updates.

Explanation of how to handle timezones as a programmer.

When redesigning my business card, I discovered a design theory on icons.

A reflection on the wonder and power of tools.

I have left Underdog.io and am trying something new.

Announcement about formalizing and open sourcing my server scripts.

An introduction to design, targeted at developers.

I have created an AMA (Ask Me Anything), feel free to ask me questions on it.

A discussion on the leading factor in my career decisions.

Theory about the stages we experience when learning a new skill.

We have updated spritesmith's API and ecosystem. Here's a list of what has changed.

An overview of how I prevent burnout on open source.

An overview of our next iteration of foundry, a modular release library.

A guide to a git workflow which minimizes merge conflicts.

A salute to the open and hackable source code of Slack's web client.

An introduction to leveraging forgetting as a controlled skill.

spritesmith now supports retina sprites. This is an introduction to using them.

Introduction to automatically checking and formatting code style.

Introduction to using eight-track and fixed-server for writing tests with other services.

Transferring visual regression tests from PhantomJS to node-webkit for better node_modules/ support and more accurate screenshots.

I am back from Japan. This is a debreif of my experience and what my plans are.

I am taking a 3 month break from everything (e.g. tech, SF, open source) and going to go live in Japan.

There are some "a-ha" moments on the road to becoming a better developer. This article visits one of mine, regression tests.

Release manager for npm, bower, component, PyPI, git tags, and any plugin you can write

Guide to getting visual regression testing/perceptual diffs set up in Travis CI

Overview of good resources for creating a gulp plugin

An explanation and walkthrough of managing browser dependencies via grunt-zip and grunt-curl.

Sublime Text plugin testing framework

Making relative line length limits usable

Choosing UNLICENSE over other licenses

Stream never-ending animated GIFs

Add links to your Markdown headers

Major refresh to website CSS and backend

Personal viewpoint on how the self is shaped.

Personal viewpoint on Free Will.

git squash without repetitive conflicts.

Using Sauce Labs to debug software on OSX.

How to debug Travis CI with Vagrant.

Experimenting with relative typographic line length limits applied to code.

Defining readability through propositions, theorems, and lemmas.

A bash prompt with colors, git statuses, and git branches.

Removing the tedium from creating, developing, and publishing repos.

Abandonment of an in-browser solution for a website-at-a-glance webpage and looking forward to perceptual diffs.

Mathematical definitions and reasoning behind why abstracted code is maintainable code.

Thoughts on taking steps to make a better shell.

Code coverage is the percentage of lines of code touched by a test suite. It is a good metric but API coverage is a new step forward.

An experiment and attempt at understanding my code patterns.

A presentation overviewing the history of BDD and some of my experiments.

An explanation of my morals/ethics and why I devote my free time to open source.

A phantomjs engine is now available for spritesmith, making the cross-platform barrier to entry super-low.

Find++ is an implementation of search utilites from Notepad++ for Sublime Text 2.

An introduction to Halo: its good, bad, and ugly parts.

Another overdue introduction -- This time to Builder, a framework for automating common client-side steps.

A long overdue introduction to Spritesmith and its components.

The following letter is about my thoughts and complaints of the recent gruntjs upgrade from 0.3 to 0.4.

Warning: This article is more opinionated than other ones.

This weekend, 3 coworkers and I, participated in Node Knockout, a 48 hour node.js based hackathon.

Introducing JSMin with sourcemaps -- available as a node module and as a grunt plugin.

Below are my most recent pipe dreams for BDD. While the example is based on testing a UI, it is applicable to anything as does BDD.

A screencast on my thoughts on client-side frameworks.

I have open sourced both my website (available here) and my entry for the the CSS Off (available here).

Introducing jojo, the 10 second blog-engine for hackers (in javascript). Jojo is heavily based on and insprired by toto.

This is a partial continuation of my previous catch up post. I finally got my CSS Off score; 61/100 points and 66th of 417 place.

When UMS' CSS Off started in Late October, I was getting frustrated at needing to manually refresh for any page change -- no matter how small.

A summary of all the contests, scripts I have written, and everything else I meant to write about since my arrival in California.

This is my first blog post for twolfson.com!