My name is Andrew, but I also go by Drew for short.

I'm currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and working at FireHydrant. I've recently came back from a work sabbatical in Japan, where I attended a Japanese language school for 4 months.

If you would like to get in touch, I prefer email as a method of communication.

Here are some things I've written over the years.

Software I Pay For


Software and services I pay for and the evolution of software monetization

Returning From Japan


Part 2 of my Japanese language learning trip

Learning Japanese


Moving to Japan to learn Japanese

Re-learning React


A short review of the Tic-Tac-Toe tutorial

Announcing AnnotateRb


A fork to the popular Annotate rails (annotate_models) gem

Build It and They Might Hate It


Building product might lead to surprising reactions

What Comes Next


The future after leaving Modern Treasury

What Is Science (2016)


Notes from a seminar with Stan Schein of UCLA on graduate school and science

Adulting Dental Insurance and Qualified Life Events


tl;dr If you were covered under insurance and find yourself without it, learn about Qualifying Life Events. If I knew this then I would have saved a $1,000.

RRF and YAGNI in Practice: A Lesson with Kent Beck


RRF is a framework for software development coined by Kent Beck.