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What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…with "good enough" to keep things moving. Sees ideas through to the end rather than throwing them over the wall. Builds simple, repeatable tools over one-off solutions. Considers how to… [more]
the megaphone
…comes with great responsibility. Megaphones Suck the Other Ideas Out of a Room This doesn't have to be a literal room. It could be a space created by an email chain, a Slack channel, a Zoom… [more]
Book Review-Stranger in a strange land
…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 down… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…There is a lot here, but hopefully it helps you have some ideas for areas that you can do better, or at least that you can be more aware of as you go about your day. Being a leader can be extremely… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…of technology and that I thought we could learn important 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… [more]
Cultural Homogeneity
…or "badly raised." And then what? Those ideas are going to show particular bias against immigrants who are familiar with their own culture, but not the dominant one. They will hit hardest on… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…until this week. I was reading an article suggesting some ideas for how to jump into the Cosmere novels and they mentioned that Elantris is the first, but not anywhere near the best, and I am inclined… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…be their identity, and they can hold onto it. PS: Some ideas for themes if you need them Spaceships SciFi Lord of the Rings Vintage video games Emo bands Mythical creatures NASA [more]
2021: Year in Review
…like this book. It’s short, very short, but his ideas about radical individualism don’t resonate with me as much as they might have int he past. Peril - Bob Woodward, Robert Costa Dang.… [more]
Antisemitism ends with us
…In the 1930s Adolf Hitler used these same ideas to propel himself to power, and to systematically exterminate millions of people from marginalized groups. Of course the holocaust only began after… [more]
2020: A year
…It's a classic for a reason. There are a lot of powerful ideas here about building companies, cultures, and processes. One of my key takeaways was that it is important to automate your decision… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…book. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann Read this book. It’s incredibly heavy at times. Totally worth… [more]
Office Hours
…they wanted to be in their careers. We talked about some ideas for how to get there. I don’t really have a plan for what to cover. If you sign up you can leave a note there about what you would like… [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…new backbone. It’s awesome and has some really good ideas, but because the developer ergonomics aren’t very good it is going to get supplanted as the favored child of the JS world. The… [more]
Critiques and Code Reviews
…The formal critiques rarely resulted in others sketching ideas for ways to improve our ideas. But, the less less formal peer critiques often did. Sketching was the easiest way to convey what could be… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
I was reading this wonderful article from ia and it occurred to me that jargon and seeing are related to each other. We know from research that Blue, my favorite color, is also one of the youngest… [more]
estimations and theory building
…phase. Which is why Naur’s ideas of programming as building theories appeals to me. Reasoning about the problem takes time. Building the theory takes time. That is why estimations are almost… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…truth enough to accept it even when it runs counter to ideas held before. This makes it an essential attribute for all members of a successful team. This is why all-star teams in sports often… [more]
Audio and Old Androids
…Latter-day Saints. The project included all sorts of new ideas and thoughts, and is using a pretty custimized version of Backbone as the core of its client side operations. But I digress... So audio… [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
…brings to creating objects or database tables. In fact the ideas of atomization and normalization from DB architecture are excellent parallels to how we should be approaching authoring CSS. Before we… [more]