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Building the Artsy Open-Source Engineering Brand, Austin CTO Summit ‘19

Today I bid farewell to Artsy. This post is my personal journey and my last post as CTO.

I gave a talk, entitled Art Market 1.0 at the The Art Market and New Tech: Smokescreens and Real Opportunities, organized by UZH in Zurich.

I gave a talk, entitled The Future is Art at the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit: Exploring Blockchain in London.

Technology, AR and Artsy, in Conversation with Andrew Russeth, ArtNews Magazine Editor, for Brunchwork

I recently had the pleasure of speaking on the State of the Art podcast.

I did an overview of Artsy for Coalition for Queens, C4Q, followed by a Q&A with Kana Abe (Publishing Dev Lead at Artsy), Christina Thompson (engineer and author of a viral ...

In late January I had the privilege of speaking about the “Future of Art” at Worlds Fair Nano in San Francisco in front of a huge audience of technologists, futurists and hopefu...

Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 was my fifth year visiting the art fair and its many satellite fairs, events, talks and parties. I went to ABMB, the main drag, Artsy partners Design ...

This was an awesome hackathon with some strong projects. The judges deliberated for a while - we ended up having to do another blind round to pick our winner.

I have the honor of serving as judge for another year at MIT Hacking Arts 2016 Hackathon that follows an incredibly inspiring conference filled with panels on the intersection o...

I learned about informationals at Microsoft. For any decent developer Engineering managers setup an in-person informational before sending you into a full job interview loop. Th...

On his Facebook page Magnus Resch writes: “We are disrupting the art world by making it more transparent.” and “You cannot stop our movement.”

View from the Artsy office. Come work with us!

I had the privilege and the pleasure to represent Artsy as judge for the MIT Hacking Arts hackathon. MIT is most definitely at the forefront of disciplines in the intersection o...

I recently worked on the Artsy Engineering Compensation Framework, and more specifically on the Engineering ladder, open-sourced today. I have done this before, but never with s...

I wanted Ruby and JSON code blocks ala Github’s Flavored Markdown when rendering markdown documents in doppler. The idea is that we can API documentation authored in markdown, a...

I gave a talk yesterday at the Flatiron School about the interviewing and hiring process for Engineers at Artsy and beyond. This focuses primarily on explaining to juniors, ie. ...

My slides from last night’s iOSoho talk on tiling and zooming ASCII art are here: https://www.slideshare.net/dblockdotorg/tiling-and-zooming-ascii-art-i-os-soho.

I was showing Inez & Vinoodh’s Stephanie Seymour’s photograph on Artsy to a friend. “Beautiful!”, she exclaimed and clicked on the Inez & Vinoodh artist profile. I lost ...

I’ve learned a great deal about iOS UI in the past couple of months, mostly working on the Artsy Mobile app and the in-Fair experience for the New York Armory Show. I feel incre...

This year my colleagues at Artsy created a formal fellowship program. We went out to many US colleges to recruit some of the brightest seniors. From thousands of applications we...

I gave a talk last week at AppNexus on building and scaling a test-driven culture.

I love reflection, especially the Ruby kind. JavaScript reflection, though, can exhibit interesting runtime behavior.

In good company with Bitfloor, NextBigSound and Crowdtap. What do we have in common? We use MongoDB.

I had a short, but lively debate over code reviews with @skamille at New York’s QCon 2012. That same day she wrote an interesting blog post on code reviews. She argues that “cod...

A recording of me speaking at MongoNYC 2012.

I wrote a blog post yesterday about How to Start Small With Big Data and Google Analytics. Essentially, it’s a jumpstart for fetching Google Analytics pageviews and merging the ...

Sometimes you send many e-mails with an important URL having the bang first. No big deal. Read about it how to redirect it on the Art.sy Engineering blog.

I heart Github and its magical green merge button. The entire fork/pull/merge workflow has been singlehandedly responsible for a massive amount of open-source contributions by m...

In 93’ I wrote a Guestbook CGI in C++. Then in 94’ I made my first blogging system. I honestly don’t remember what technology it used, but I think it was some hairy PHP with a t...

You may have read my previous post about the MongoDB 1.4.x Ruby driver hell.

Building a software platform is not just an investment in the future, it’s a software architecture philosophy. A proper API is a manifestation of some of the core principles of ...

I remember bringing a 14Kbps modem from the U.S. back to Europe in mid-nineties. I couldn’t wait to stick it into the ISA slot on my 486 and was underestimating how much trouble...

Vanity aside, Wired published a very well written article on Art.sy (link) in the December issue. I think it’s objective, describes the company vision well, and the story about ...

I mean, I am flattered to be #20 of the most poachable techies in NYC list, and you got about half of your facts right (eg. my Github account) but seriously?

I got 5 seconds around 1m20.

In the past two days we’ve had hell with our production environment. It started with a general feel of slowness followed by all kinds of alarms going off in the monitoring syste...

Me on Eye&Mind, talking about Art.sy technology, link.

En route to Boston, speaking at Mongo Boston tomorrow, Monday. I’m going to talk about our history with MongoDB at Art.sy, the challenges and, of course, about how much we like ...

With so many coffee breaks a day we can’t just have interns writing coffee. Introducing jQuery.konami, a new open-source plugin from @craigspaeth. You know something awesome is ...

We all have wish lists. Here’s the deal. Contribute to any of these open-source projects and I will help you in any way I can.

Inspired by this post on RSpec best practices and updated for RSpec2.

In the last 24 hours my Github Is Your New Resume post gathered 343 comments between my blog, HN and Reddit. There are also 233 RTs. First, I want to thank those with good comme...

This is somewhat of a continuation of the unexpectedly popular story of my commute and the unofficial guide of moving to New York for software engineers.

This is somewhat a continuation of the unexpectedly popular story of my commute.

I’ll be presenting at Internet Week NY on Monday, June 6th, 2pm.

My class sold out tonight with over 40 people attending. If you were there, thank you so much! It’s really rewarding to have an engaged audience where nobody even moved when Bra...

I had a nice time today wrapping up the Idee PixMatch API in a Ruby gem. PixMatch is a general image matching engine that allows you to perform large scale image comparisons and...

I’m teaching a class at General Assembly on April 20th.

You’ve heard about continuous deployment. But did you actually try to do it?