I had the privilege of having a debate piece published in Ingeniøren on the future of Denmark’s digitalizaton journey, where I talk about Open Standards and Data Spaces. You can read the whole article (in Danish) on their website: https://pro.ing.dk/digitech/holdning/teknologier-er-noeglen-det-naeste-skridt-paa-danmarks-digitaliseringsrejse
When I joined Unity in 2010, we were well under 100 people. I don’t just mean in the Copenhagen office. I mean total. I can’t remember; I think I was employee number 60-something, or maybe it was 70-something. Unity 2.7 was the current version. There was no Linux version. Almost all of R&D sat in a couple of European timezones. We had a single, company-wide mailing list that we used
Many people have asked me over the years what they need to do in order to make their technology workplaces more appealing to diverse groups of people. I have given a lot of advice about increasing the representation of women in technology over the years, but since I’m returning to work soon after being on maternity leave with my second child, I’ve been thinking about how what I value in
This is a (heavily) abridged version of an internal talk I gave at Unity in Copenhagen in December 2018 about User-Oriented Development. I’m sharing it here because I believe the learnings are useful outside of internal tools and outside of Unity. Hello. Long time no . . . . write? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve spent the last year working on a new internal project at Unity called Flight Control. For the purpose
At Unity, we’ve been spending a lot of effort recently looking at our build times. One of the topics that came up is lumped builds. I realized during all of this (and while doing my own research of course) that many people are lacking a clear understanding of what lumped builds gain you, and what they cost in return. What are lumped builds? Lumped builds are known by a few
Last year, I gave a keynote at ACT-W titled “Don’t Ask for Permission”. The video of this talk was made available, but I’ve been meaning to make a blog post with the transcript of the talk for awhile. Since ACT-W 2016 just released their call for proposals, I thought it would be good to finally get around to doing so. Keep in mind that this talk was given in May of 2015, so some
Whew! It’s a week later, and I’m almost recovered from the non-stop whirlwind that was GDC 2016! I thought I’d do a little write-up of how my week went while it’s still fresh in my mind. (I also got a lot of good inspiration for blog content from GDC, so stay tuned over the next days and weeks.) Going into the week, I was primarily interested in a few different
Yesterday I was attempting to relax by browsing random things on the internet (usually a mistake, I know), and I stumbled upon an awesome white paper by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz about the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing. These are so obvious yet so profound I couldn’t help but write up a quick blog post about them. They’re especially relevant for modern day build engineers and tools developers — certainly relevant to the Build Automation
A couple of weeks ago at Unite Boston, I had the pleasure of giving a talk entitled How We Make Unity: A Look into How Development in Unity’s R&D Organization Works. If you missed it and would like to view the slides, they’re available online over here. Unity’s development mainline is managed with a gatekeeper workflow. A gatekeeper workflow means that developers do not push their own changes to the development mainline,
OK, let me clarify. Engineering is not 100% about problems. It’s more like the first 70% or so. The last 30% is about the solution. In all of the engineering teams I’ve worked in, I’m convinced that one of the biggest productivity killers is lost time due to engineers not fully understanding the problem they are trying to solve. Conflicting advice, not understanding all of the constraints, unclear expectations leading