
James Somers
Jane Street's writer-in-residence, balancing time between English and OCaml to enhance knowledge-sharing efforts.
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Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 1min
Writing, Technically with James Somers
James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose.You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing OCaml code blocksMore on the 4 types of technical writing that James referencesDonald Knuth’s original book on Literate ProgrammingMore on John McPhee’s use of KEDITPeter Seibel’s Coders at WorkDavid Goodsell’s The Machinery of LifeScott Huler’s Defining the WindSome of James’s writing on our tech blog

Nov 20, 2023 • 9min
Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (Changelog News #71)
Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a 'eulogy' to coding for The New Yorker, and Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimization.