Krystal and I recently took a short trip to Niagara Falls and Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada where my grandparents live. Other than planning where we would spend each night, we didn’t plan anything. We figured with a car and good … Continue reading
I wanted to love Meritage, I really did. It had everything going for it: Great location; award-winning chef; world-class wine list; highly recommended by Yoav… But none of that mattered; Meritage failed to meet my expectations. Krystal and I decided to … Continue reading
This month I finally succeeded in building a continuous integration alarm for the new HubSpot office. I used a combination of X10 home automation devices and a Windows service written in C# to monitor our CI server and set off … Continue reading
This is the third post in a series about pain-reducing improvements I’ve made to my workstation. For more detail, read part 1 and part 2. For the first couple of years working at HubSpot I kept my computer, monitor, keyboard, … Continue reading
Sometime last year we started running into trouble with the HubSpot dashboard application for all of our customers. The dashboard was beginning to load slowly, very slowly. I investigated the slowness for a while, with help from my co-worker Stephen … Continue reading
Ever since Facebook announced the ability to add a Like button to any webpage I’ve been mulling over the consequences. My thoughts solidified. And I have decided that Facebook is f-ing brilliant. To understand why I believe that, start by … Continue reading
Last night it took two and a half hours to watch LOST. The show is 45 minutes long. The extra hour and a half was spent coping with the utter disaster that ABC calls a video player. It got me … Continue reading
Sunday morning I drove up to Gilford, NH for Mother’s Day and managed to sneak in nine holes before visiting my parents. I played with Andrew, one of my oldest friends and an equal golfer. We went to Pheasant Ridge, … Continue reading
Last month I wrote about ordering some new inline skates. They’re here and I’ve had a few opportunities to go out for a spin. It has been years since the last time I went skating so I took it easy … Continue reading
Ever since the weather improved in Boston I’ve been dying to spend more time outside. Krystal and I go for a lot of long walks throughout Cambridge and Boston. I also go running once or twice a week with the … Continue reading