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the blind side of seniority
…way. That narrowed the focus enough to execute and deliver, instead of spinning our wheels on a perfect solution for every possible use of an event bus, most of which we might never need. We might… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…to hit. But I think the opposite is also true, and we live in this interesting tension. Our best practices are mētis. Compressed. Somebody learned "don't do X" through three outages at… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…was terrible he said, few of the people there were still alive, and those were slipping quickly into death. They had worked for hours moving people in packed ambulances to hospitals where surgeons… [more]
My Name is Ed
…need to step back and see the bigger picture that my work lives in. So I stepped through the fence and right onto the point of a nail embedded in one of the recently removed fence boards. I grimaced… [more]
Safe Homes
…deaths Until welcoming shores Took them in Rebuilding lives again Already built too many times And families, too often Broken by other's choices They† built l'Acadiane, From the mossy swamps After… [more]
Siblings
…responsibilities? The most difficult thing to do is to live it To do what I can To grant myself grace when I can’t To give what I can to those who need To seek those who need love To hold hands, give… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…record of building high performing organizations that deliver real value to companies, while still being technical enough to contribute both in code and architecture. I have consulted with companies… [more]
help the person next to you
…quality. Even in great pain, faced with the test of their lives, they had the ability to step outside of their own pain, put aside their own fear and ask: How can I help the guy next to me? They had… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…are being given to members of their team, they should deliver the news. Where there are commendations for team members let them help. Leading needs to cover the delivery good news as well as hard… [more]
Last Lectures
…each other, specifically we rarely get to learn from the lived experiences of others. When I ask someone departing to give a last lecture I ask them to share the things they have learned in their… [more]
Book Review-How to Survive in a Science Fictional Universe
Review-How to live safely in a science fictional universe By Charles Yu If I said the words: “Primer with daddy issues” how would that make you feel? If it makes you feel intrigued then you might… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…for a game approached. That is what you want to avoid. Delivering new code to production should happen often, and should not be a BIG DEAL. It should be boring, both in that it requires no special… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…we give our families in shaping all aspects of their lives. Telling the story of a family who tackles the cause of building an orphanage, sacrifices to do it and begins to view themselves as heros in… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…struggled to fit with the other cowboys who spent their lives working cattle. In the end their victory placed them as figures of legend, though it took a century more for it to be enshrined in a hall… [more]
Organizational Design Democracy And Ownership
…them manageable. That means that Ownership and Bureaucracy live on opposite ends of a spectrum. And that when you are hiring, or building a team, you should look at what level of bureaucracy you have… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…experimental conditions: the first group was asked to deliver the report in six weeks, the second group in four weeks, while the third was offered a payment of 100 USD for meeting the four week… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…author who is Ojibwe. It interweaves reservation life and lived experience with the context of US policy towards Native Americans in a compelling way. One of the better books on this topic. I Know Why… [more]
2020: A year
…but honestly an exciting one for me and my family. We've lived through multiple natural disasters, moved, changed jobs, survived a pandemic, had a new baby join us, and tried to normalize all of the… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…in ACM) Things Not Worth Reading These books did not live up to the hype... I most likely did not finish reading them, and leave them here as a warning to you. Hopefully saving you some cash and some… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…love letters, political discourse, these all now live on the internet instead of the printed ephemera that they occupied since the printing press was created. Really the articles that we all churn out… [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
…first while. In fact everything seemed normal until the delivery of the package. Which... didn’t come to my house. In fact it didn’t come to my state. USPS delivered it on time... to… [more]
So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.
…was no golden age, that the age in which we currently live is as golden as any other age will not win you friends. Oh and stay away from discussing the actual history of the Middle East if you studied… [more]
Now.
…that instant gratification to their careers and to their lives.” — Simon Sinek watch the video Found on Swiss-Miss [more]
Getting Lost and Happiness
…saw a character on a TV show called Hamilton the pig, who lives inside a box. He wanted to replicate that life for himself. — Raj Raghunathan [more]
mourning
…are more focused on the people who daily end their own lives then on those who perpetrate horrific acts against many. We can and should do better at helping them and at understanding the actual causes… [more]
reducing noise
Noise is everywhere in our lives. From commercials, to billboards, to a new crying infant, it is literally everywhere. Some of it is good noise. Some of it is distracting us from the things we want to… [more]
Biology and CSS
…gray even at the ripe old age of 31. I have blue eyes and olive skin. Now that you know more about my physical appearance than you wanted to let’s get down to brass tacks. The inheritance model… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…leads to a very flat directory structure where everything lives in the components directory. Each component should be its own directory, and inside should be everything about that component. Tests go… [more]
The drum circle has disbanded but our drums…
The drum circle has disbanded but our drums still pound in my ears. The fury, joy, excitement, and sadness. They live in my head. [more]
Line-Height... lineheight... line-height
…Generally it will not eat your website, though it probably lives there without you knowing about it. This is generally not an issue, though if your website develops odd line spacing, spots, blurry… [more]
There is a Right Way
…their own tools, and jigs, to ensure that the end product lives up to the standards that they and their customers expect. We as developers and designers need to do the same thing, creating a diverse… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…console and try this: ( 1 === 1 ) && alert('Johnny 5 is alive!'); yep amazing! It does the same thing as: if( 1===1) { alert(' Johnny 5 is alive!'); } Sure there are other short forms of that if… [more]
11
…17 and getting ready for a day full of work and school. I lived in southern Austin, TX with my parents and siblings and was attending Austin Community College, studying Computer Information Systems. I… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…sort of paranoia where we are afraid to really say: we live in the third technological revolution. I have an iPod in my pocket, I have a mobile phone, I have a laptop, but then somehow I end up going… [more]
Trust and the Box
…was still on it’s journey and the astronauts were alive. But the astronauts were surrounded by a cacophony of flashing warning lights and alarms. No one knew what had happened, or what to do.… [more]