Jerome LiWhat purpose does code review serve?If you’re a tech company, chances are you have some kind of code review process. But first we should ask…3 min read·Mar 9, 2023----
Jerome LiWe’re giving up all the wrong thingsWith AI-generated art becoming more and more mainstream, Studio Ghibli’s venerable Hayao Miyazaki criticized it as “an insult to life…3 min read·Jan 2, 2023----
Jerome LiThe “employment winter” of 2019My adventure at Google lasted four years. I spent six years in corporate-land after graduating from university. I left Google in the summer…4 min read·Jul 18, 2022----
Jerome LiOpen your mind… but not too muchCountries around the world love trotting out their increasing literacy figures. Look, we have a 97% literacy rate among adults! That’s…2 min read·Jul 4, 2022----
Jerome LiThere is too much noiseAt the airport, you will often hear announcements being broadcast throughout the whole place. This is the final boarding call for… yada…3 min read·Jun 27, 2022----
Jerome LiInvesting in real estate isn’t the flex you think it isWhat do you do with all the money you’ve saved from working 70-hour weeks at your FAANG/startup/finance/law job? What do you do after…3 min read·Jun 23, 2022----
Jerome LiWhat are we looking for in a coding interview?I’m here to tell you, from the perspective of an interviewer, exactly what we’re looking for in our candidates when we throw them…4 min read·Jun 14, 2022----
Jerome LiIt’s not your imagination — everything is becoming shittierTech is such a pain in the ass to use and work with. CSS. Git. JIRA. npm and yarn. Come on people, it’s 2022 — we carry the equivalent of…4 min read·Jun 11, 2022----
Jerome LiThe most frustrating thing about Git……is that it is hard to articulate what exactly is frustrating about it.3 min read·Dec 6, 2021--4--4
Jerome LiWhy people should actually “invent things here”Not invented here, or NIH for short, refers to a tendency to avoid using products, research, or standards which one did not create…5 min read·Dec 6, 2021----