Coding interviews have rapidly gained popularity in recent years. Although Joel Spolsky advocated for them in 2000, they have really gained traction in the past several years. As coding interviews have gained in popularity, they’ve also attracted some criticism. One argument against coding interviews is that they are not like an actual job. That’s absolutely correct. In one coding interview, I was given an old laptop without a mouse or trackpad. It just had a trackpoint, the red dot you

Today, I’m releasing Modern Footnotes, a new WordPress plugin to add footnotes to your pages and posts. I love writing that uses footnotes for providing interesting tidbits or extra commentary that doesn’t fit the main thread of the writing. Some of the best uses of this online are on FiveThirtyEight and the now-defunct Grantland. I looked at every WordPress footnote plugin available and didn’t find one I liked, so I built my own. I wanted something that would let you