Search Results: knowledge
the blind side of seniority
…I've argued before that mētis, the practical, local knowledge you earn by getting burned, is what separates senior engineers from junior ones, and that it's worth protecting because no metric… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…be the only tractable thing to do. However, you gave up knowledge of the actual field, in exchange for a number that describes no single part of it. What Does This Have to Do With Software? A long… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…to the success of the company. Communicates & Shares Knowledge Articulates problems and solutions clearly in writing, in code, and in conversation at any level of abstraction. Actively shares what… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…of the work that they are doing? These are symptoms of knowledge silos, or responsibility silos that indicate a team that is not functioning in a healthy way. People need vacations, and the team… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…architectural decisions, while the first doesn't. It acknowledges that sessions and payments are only related in that they are owned by the same team. Abstractions, drawn carefully, can be… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…Teams owning reviews in the areas that they have specific knowledge, and working within them to work out how to get the reviews done. Team instability, and demanding deadlines may provide a… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…hosted graph DB, freed me from lots of the infrastructure knowledge for now. But there was seemingly no good local development story for it. Then I remembered that in the world of Graph DBs the thing… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…How much more satisfied with ourselves could we be if we acknowledged that imperfections in the surface of a piece of wood furniture were in fact marks of beauty, that the wear of use represented the… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…complexity. I just wish I had picked up enough algorithms knowledge already to be able to fly through some of these. Someday... maybe soon... hopefully. 4. These things are probably terrible as… [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
A couple of weeks ago I fell for scam in the amazon marketplace. Yep me. It was a clever one and not one I have seen written about so I am writing about it. The Setup I was in the market for a truing… [more]
So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.
…cultures and that t)hat’s a good thing. Your knowledge of the "Golden Age Fallacy" will also upset people. Understanding that there was no golden age, that the age in which we currently live is… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…at the beginning. Theory is one of the biggest holes in my knowledge and one that I am still working to close. So what does this mean for boot camps? A lot actually. In saying what I am about to say I… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…but maybe they won’t. But, we should be able to acknowledge the good work and the beauty of code without cringing at the style with which it is written. [more]