About me

My name is Peter Coles, I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2007, and moved to NYC to work at a machine-learning, consumer-facing startup called Hunch. In November 2011 Hunch was acquired by eBay, and we opened up their New York office where I was the dev manager of the homepage team, overseeing a large reimagining of the homepage experience and expansion to international domains. I then joined the wearable jewelry startup, Ringly, to launch the initial pre-order campaign and then to run the software team.

After Ringly, I spent some time coding, hacking, and becoming part of the wonderful Recurse Center community. I then worked on my GoFullPage Chrome extension (aka Full Page Screen Capture), which included building out a customer support integration (and responding to thousands of tickets!), leading to tons of improvements, and then to build out premium editing and annotation features along with a fresh new website as the homebase: gofullpage.com.

I co-founded the company Superset building it up from zero with responsibilities such as leading engineering, co-leading product, and staying hands-on in the code. It was a joy building out the engineering team, architecting and implementing our Superset Sheets product, and kicking off our Sheets AI features. I handed the reins to my co-founder so I could pursue some new ideas and am still rooting for the team!

This blog covers mostly technical topics related to web development—some as tutorials and some as random or goofy side projects—and it has a spattering of other material too. Enjoy a song below that has been randomly selected just for you!