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What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…Cadastral maps. Standardized surnames. Scientific forestry. 1 Simplification isn't ignorance, it's the price of being able to act at scale. Engineering orgs do this constantly. Velocity. Story… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…It’s easy. We’ll tell you where they are and then the rest is up to you. Be a hero. Get your revenge. That’s what heroes do.” Ok. Lets do this. Revenge! The plane touched down and hopped once before… [more]
Safe Homes
…to build new lives in a cast off land Far from the forests, and farms they knew Those who survived, fraught sea passages Were cast in a country alien to them Humid, and close Cypré and cocodrie,… [more]
Siblings
…observe it? How do I help others believe it? How do I wrestle with the ways my siblings are treated? How do I wrestle with the ways my siblings treat each other? How do I love my enemies? How do I… [more]
A New Noise
…and heart I need to trace it To exile its source And restore the peace Of wind in ears, and burning legs But, it is unpredictable. I cannot cause it with intent It comes and goes like the Song of… [more]
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [more]
Spotify Archivist
…what I liked musically during a year would at least be interesting for me. So I set out on the next phase. Claude and ChatGPT fleshed out a first pass at sentiment analysis. Suggesting npm modules… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…to be worked on immediately and when it is ok to pay interest for a while. I know how to help teams ship fast, on time, and with minimal bugs. I have been on both sides of technical diligence… [more]
Book Report - Rilke's Book of Hours
…I started with the Book of Hours. It was beautiful. Rilke wrestles with his relationship with God, and others, but mostly with God. We all have to wrestle with our relationship with Diety but he does… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…it is because none of the more seasoned folks are interested. Sometimes it is to save costs. No matter what it harms their career and long term prospects. Engineers respect managers that they believe… [more]
Book Review-Stranger in a strange land
…I love, but the level of exposition takes some really interesting ideas, about language, and how we observe the world, what it means to be human, and the legal conflict of the future, and waters them… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…of those points well for your manager, and for other interested parties. You should likely be talking about this in your larger organization meetings, as a way to get exposure, and hone your… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…ideas from to help us focus in on the work of the rest of the day. So I reached out to Daren Smith to see if he would be willing to come and talk about the process of producing films and TV. Having… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…it: rapid review of the evidence ( Notes ). Lots of interesting things here. First, we’re all experimenting higher anxiety than baseline. Second, we’re in uncharted territory with the durations we’re… [more]
Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
…who build worlds well especially when they build interesting rules governing their magical systems. ↩ [more]
Book Review-Getting to Yes
…the need to focus on identifying the motivations and interests of everyone at the table before working towards agreement. Humanizing the person you are negotiating with and clearly stating desired… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…weary, he gave us back our honor." If you have an interest in cycling and history, "The Road to Valor" is a compelling read. [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…with principles he thought were true. It was therefore interesting and worth understanding." I know little about quasicrystals, but I love how the learned context of long term interactions… [more]
Software Engineer vs. Software Developer
…to software development. Or at least to sound more prestigious than the Software Developer role. Which probably does manifest itself in company culture. Originally published in my newsletter [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…and should be taken as such. Think of them more as the interesting points that deserve thought in a context that the author of the paper (Andrea Bonaccorsi) was not specifically considering when… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
…well in remote teams. Android Engineer If you're interested in building things in Kotlin for native android, this is the role for you. About Lumio Product and Technology We believe that power is… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…which helped give me some perspective. For anyone interested there has got to be a better way to handle this exchange of information. Creating so many one off presentations and passing slides around… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…leaders is to encourage people to take risks they are interested in taking, and that make them nervous. That brings us to our second lesson, make sure they have support in taking the risk. To do this… [more]
Antisemitism ends with us
…to the hard part. Do we write them off as crazy? Do we wrestle with ourselves? Do we as a society guard the line of civil discourse? To write them off as crazy is to ease our conscience without… [more]
2020: A year
…Shiv Gaglani about openings at Osmosis… I was interested. It was time for something different, and I had mostly plateued at Instructure with little more room for career growth. Don't get me… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…Ast, and Martin Gaedke This paper proposes some really interesting ideas for creating fully functional web components backed by serverless functions. Makes for an interesting potential architecture… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…language. All great marks in its favor. However, since the rest of the project was going to be a series of lambdas and api gateways, and it was going to be hosted in AWS I got curious about Neptune.… [more]
Cresting the ridge revealed the barren miles that…
Cresting the ridge revealed the barren miles that were The Scrub. Its emptiness went on forever. That was good though. I had things to think about. Things that I didn't want interrupted by idle… [more]
Vetting Information you read on the internet
…summary of how I vet web media outlets. For anyone interested in how to quickly vet websites as to their reliability: Suspect there might be some bias in an article. This most easily done by starting… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…page represent the most obvious forms of navigation. The rest is hidden behind the logo, much like a hamburger menu. Antoine de Saint Exupéry famously said, "It seems that perfection is attained not… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…Codes in my "free" time which lead me to a couple of interesting observations. 1. Number of passing tests is more important then compute time This makes sense right? If you pass more tests then… [more]
The pen drop from my hand toward the…
The pen drop from my hand toward the page I was copying. My hand ached. My mind ached. I shook my head and stood, looking for rest. [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
…scam that with the same ease. Hopefully this is interesting to others, it was eye opening to me. I am glad I got my money back but I still feel a little embarrassed that I got duped. Me. Dang it. Keep… [more]
monument
…tools. That means you can rough out your entire REST API in the time it takes to describe your routes in JSON. The other thing that plays a key role in the developer experience is the decoupled nature… [more]
Critiques and Code Reviews
…easiest way to convey what could be better. It was the clearest way to communicate concepts. Part of being a designer, or engineer, is being able to examine our own work through the lens of… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…boot camp that shouldn't be a bad thing. Because your interests will align with theirs. But what I've seen in reviewing resumes is that most of their graduates are trying to get into the industry with… [more]
ambition. life's work.
…is the thing that guides us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and that those are likely… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…language over time. One of the things that was really interesting was his discussion about how the idea of "correct" english evolved in the 14th century with the rise of the bourgeoisie. Before that… [more]
Death to Jquery
…you think about jQuery the slides are at least interesting... and making the randomly generated backgrounds was really fun. Might have to write about that later. Check them out! [more]
ambition. life's work.
…is the thing that guides us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and that those are likely… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…I learned about the language that I thought were interesting let’s jump into the bad stuff. The things that were a pain and the things that made life hard. Problems You need Docker A whole lot… [more]
estimations and theory building
…world works then it is to manufacture. This has really interesting ramifications. The reason it came up has more to do with the gradual decline that code bases go through as the team comes and goes.… [more]
2015: in review
…this quarter (fingers crossed). For the curious it is a REST APIed data store with both a hosted and self-hosted option. monument has taken off averaging around 1000 downloads per month, putting it in… [more]
Learning the Trade
…would throw together a list of resources I have found interesting and useful when it comes to building the internet. This is by no means exhaustive and will be updated over time as I find new things… [more]
Details. Details. Details.
A few days ago my wife and I had dinner at a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The food is delicious, especially the black bean ravioli. But they got an important detail completely wrong. The detail?… [more]
The Problem of Over Communication
…means that when we do have something important and interesting to say our audience won’t hear it. It will get lost in the static of other information. The solution here is simple. Tell your… [more]
REST vs. RPC and a mention of HATEOS
…to this data, and nothing else. Only these things.” REST APIs describe the data itself. They aren’t about you can do X with the data. If you want to do X to the data then you do X and then… [more]
Line-Height... lineheight... line-height
…far as I know… Realistically this is more of an interesting discovery, and less of a problem. Unless you are doing some calculation based on line-height in javascript you won’t see any… [more]
Audio and Old Androids
…on it, and how they were solved. For those of you interested in such things the project was the new Scripture Mastery activities for seminary students, high school students enrolled in a religion… [more]
Moving the World
…of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…moves on without ever touching the true. This has some interesting practical applications. Because it means that you can use the first statement as an IF and the second can be your command to be… [more]
11
…that is back home, and I don’t remember much of the rest of that day. In the days that followed came numerous discussions with my mother about what this meant. What war would mean, because it… [more]
Hide the Admins
…can use them again. Click the security tab Under access restrictions enter your IP address (your internet facing IP address(whatismyip.org) not your local one in most cases) and any other IPs you want… [more]
Current Projects Update
…LDS.org and redirects you to a random selection. Most interesting part was writing the Java based web scraper for the General Conference Archive, since it didn't already have a feed. Still a little… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…with a bit of history. Since the 1960s the USA and the rest of the developing world have been shifting the production of increasingly complex goods to the developing world. As the Government… [more]
Trust and the Box
…reinstall the fuel cells. With that message passed on, the rest of the consoles came back on line and the capsule returned to normal. Later review revealed that the capsule had been struck repeatedly… [more]
A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies
Recently at work we went through a security review. It was a great learning experience to have outside contractors try and break into the web application. Found several things that I didn't expect and… [more]