All posts written by Pat George
Here’s to Thriday
The last eighteen months have been very hard. You know that, you’ve lived it. We’ve all done what we can in order to get by. A couple months ago FreeAgent decided to help us do that by giving us Fridays off for the months of July and August. I admit when it was first announced in our weekly Town Hall I didn’t listen to the rest of the meeting; I… Continue reading
Uprooting the Binary Tree
You’re a talented software engineer looking for your next position. Maybe you’re eyeing the FAANGs so you start researching how they do their technical interviews and you discover they like to ask algorithm-type questions - Reverse a linked list in place, Print the kth level of Pascal’s Triangle, Does string contain substring - and have you design Dropbox, Twitter, or some other system of their choosing. Then you apply to… Continue reading
From Finder to Sublime Text
At FreeAgent we work on Macs with a good number of us using iTerm2 and some using Sublime Text. Often I find myself in Finder needing to open a file or folder in Sublime Text. The unfun way is to go Finder -> Services -> Open New iTerm Tab Here and then once that opens type subl .. There's a couple other ways to do this that are more fun… Continue reading