Colin Mark Armstrong

I'm a software engineer & founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm working on Paragraph.

Previously, I was an engineering manager at Google, and before that I worked on payments at Coinbase.

Spending time deliberately

Throughout any given day, my mood & state of mind fluctuates depending on many factors: quality of sleep, what I ate that day, how my personal relationships are going, how my company is doing, etc. Because of this, I try to avoid a fixed schedule as much as possible. I view my day as fluid: I hav...

Photoshop Hijacks Your Cursor

I came across an interesting webdev bug today. For some reason, on my site, my cursor was not working correctly. When hovering over links or buttons or elements that set cursor: pointer , my cursor did not turn into a pointer hand; instead, it stayed as a regular ol’ cursor. This was odd. I didn...

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Work

  1. Company
    Paragraph
    Role
    Founder & CEO
    Date
  2. Company
    Google
    Role
    Engineering Manager
    Date
  3. Company
    Coinbase
    Role
    Software Engineer
    Date