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the blind side of seniority
…thought. If you have seen it, you know the moment you read the migration. "Cool, we're adding a column with a default value. That's going to backfill the entire table, so anything else… [more]
a great work
A great work lies already to the hand of this generation; it should count itself happy, indeed, that to it is given the privilege of doing such a work. – Theodore Roosevelt (Vice Presidential… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
A while back I was reading James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State , and toward the end of it he goes on a long tangent about agriculture. Specifically about the high modernist urge to rationalize… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…add, not culture fit. Fit selects for the people you already have. "Add" asks what this person brings that the team is missing. We also try to make clear that the attributes we are looking… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…My room had a good view of the river and the city spreading around it. It was all here just like it was supposed to be. The map taped to the underside of the desk drawer. The photos taped under the… [more]
Where is the hiker box?
…things I am carrying? How can I find more space in a day already so full That it spills into nights and next days To carry more? Why can’t I just put some things down And walk away from them? We don’t… [more]
Safe Homes
…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 half their… [more]
lab
…well as LLM based sentiment analysis for months and years. Read More About it Memorize a little app for learning quotes, scriptures, and poems by heart, practicing a paragraph at a time. It installs… [more]
Spotify Archivist
…prompt for Claude.ai: write a shell node script that reads all of my liked/saved songs from spotify's api, and creates playlists of them based on the year that they were saved. The playlist names… [more]
the megaphone
…If you haven't read her books you should. Start with Radical Candor, but read more than just it. https://www.radicalcandor.com/ ↩ "The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…into a Corner: Architecting for Flexibility If you read and watched all of that... I think we're best friends now? More seriously if those resonate we should talk . Footnotes You can see a bunch… [more]
Book Report - Rilke's Book of Hours
I've been trying to read more poetry this year. Which has honestly been refreshing. I dove into Rilke after re-watching JoJo Rabbit where it his poetry is quoted. I wasn't sure were to start… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
So this article started as a thread of tweets . I want to expand on it, so I am going to quote all the tweets here and then try to explain more about the topics they are touching on. Try to take it a… [more]
Last Lectures
…bit more. A book that was really impactful for me when I read it for the first time was The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. It's a great book, but I actually watched the video of his actual… [more]
Book Review-How to Survive in a Science Fictional Universe
…and the need to reconnect with our fathers. It is a quick read. It is a well told story in a surprisingly claustrophobic world. It is also about people and the connections we have and lose and miss.… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…they are delivering. Has stable/increasing throughput The dreaded velocity talk. Velocity is an imperfect measure. But is is a good proxy for a lot of things if you use it in a reasonable way. A… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…talk about the process of producing films and TV. Having read his article about producing profitable films , I thought there were some strong parallels between our work and his that would help us… [more]
The infinite power of people
This afternoon I was reading a theological book ( Jacob: a brief theological introduction by Deidre Nicole Green ) when I happened on a quick mention of power over vs power with. It sounded familiar,… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…Toolkit . Which is probably something we all have heard already, but the article lays out some great techniques to break out of solving problems to coaching team members through problems. This is a… [more]
Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads
…to use terms like “the disjunctive normal form”. I was reading How We Turn Authorization Logic Into SQL and ran into “the disjunctive normal form”. So I looked it up . It is: an OR of ANDS . In SQL… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…Cosmere novel, that had somehow slipped through my reading list until this week. I was reading an article suggesting some ideas for how to jump into the Cosmere novels and they mentioned that Elantris… [more]
Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
…but deep book. Well short for Sanderson. If you are a reader of other Cosmere books you’ll recognize the magical system from the final book in the Wax & Wayne cycle, where it appears in the hands… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…you can have them go through a complex story arc, but the reader will still know the goodness in their heart. Embracing whimsy is related, and has to do with creating experiences and moments in real… [more]
Book Review-Getting to Yes
…to Yes By Roger Fisher and William Ury This is a quick read with some really good insights into negotiating that isn’t focused on tricks or manipulative tactics. It emphasizes the need to focus on… [more]
New Literature Section Added
…I had more direct control over. So now if you enjoy reading sometime decent, and sometimes terrible, writing there is a place to do that here. Honestly some of those nanos I love, and others are best… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…was worth the wait. As a history book, I’ll note, that it reads more like the pop history it is then a work of academic rigor, though I haven’t checked its sources. Some of the historical connections… [more]
Book Review-The Ocean at the End of the Lane
…a content thing for me. Not all of his writing that I have read resonates with me. I can say the same thing for Neal Stephenson. Perhaps that is just how I relate to authors named some variant of… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…degree, this book was destined to find its way into my reading list. "The Road to Valor" delves into the life of Gino Bartali, one of the great Italian road racers. Bartali's claim to… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…Raake, and Judith Koeppe. I found this paper while reading Digital Body Language by Erica Dhawan. So far the book is good but I paused to dig into this paper that lays out some of the base research… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…here if you find any of this interesting it is worth a read. It is possible that there are biasing elements in code review based on, theprestige of the author, the prestige of the change, the… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…many of them. But since you probably don’t want to read all of them here are the top items from each category below: Book: Every Tool’s a Hammer - Adam Savage Video: This injury almost broke me.… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…resources they need to be successful. If they’re not ready, have them pair with someone who is to work on it. And make sure that they hear us encouraging them to go for it, and then finding them… [more]
2020: A year
…this is MIT Press’ Distributed Work which I am still reading. So many highlights and notes. Hopefully in the future I can get around to writing more about the things I am learning in my new… [more]
A Simple QR Code Based System for Organizing Your Boxes
…on my website to do it… then I remembered that we already use Google docs for all sorts of things, maybe they would work here. Then a little more experimenting with the mobile apps, and the various… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…to be a pretty straightforward list of what tech related reading I did this year. It doesn’t include hundreds of blog posts and forum discussion. I’ll break it into two categories, things… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…like to admit. You may do better than me, but take time to read the docs and intro. The querying concepts are likely different than what you’ve dealt with in the past. And gremlin feels more alien… [more]
"Hmm..." Patricia thought. Hopping from the swing she…
…the chain as violently as she could. Her growing sense of dread leapt at the unexpected silence of the chain. She ran to the slide, hammering it with her fists. Nothing. Silence. [more]
Vetting Information you read on the internet
…websites for content accuracy that the average non-nerd (read cool person) hasn’t been exposed to. So read ahead for a quick summary of how I vet web media outlets. For anyone interested in how… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…be in blog navigation, 2) that no one really goes back and reads a blog’s archive, and 3) that the web is both a new age of ephemera and completely permenant. Ephemera, if you are unfamiliar,… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…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 recruiting… [more]
Jumping on the AMA bandwagon
…an issue there, and I’ll answer them there in the readme. If a question deserves more space I’ll answer here and put a link there. Ohhh right... you can find a link there permanently in… [more]
Tides are fickle things, Paul thought. The days…
Tides are fickle things, Paul thought. The days we'd spent floating in them had shown that. Reading minds had become normal for us. [more]
monument
…and trigger an event on completion. The receiver is already going to be waiting on that event so no work needed on the consumer end. Need to scale out a process to another server? Same deal... the… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…since most companies don't offer them. If you are reading this and have a some funding and want to try this model out, hit me up! Let’s talk. If you're boot camper, or future boot camper, find this… [more]
Being Senior Part 1- the books and data
This is just a quick post to throw up the books I quoted from and a link to the data for anyone who attended my presentation at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long… [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]
Io: the language, not the moon
…did the program was still going to be completely single threaded on the CPU. Not single threaded in the node sense, where it spins out threads for long running/async tasks but single threaded. As in… [more]
mourning
…Yes. If you don’t believe the former, please go read about the Troubles in Ireland, the bombings in the Middle East, and the Crusades. If you don’t believe the latter please go read about… [more]
estimations and theory building
…or other physical product where the theory building has already taken place before production has begun. In that sort of production the theory building is treated as a separate task from the physical… [more]
:hover should be dead
…get active but not hover . That’s a big deal. Screen readers also aren’t the best with faking hover if they do it at all. They are great with active though. Frustrating Interactions Just… [more]
2015: in review
…also wrote ansble and monument! I had hoped to have ansble ready for a full scale public roll out by the end of the year but that didn’t happen. I should have it done this quarter (fingers… [more]
Learning the Trade
…is the best book on forms that has been written. A must read. The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero. Originally kickstarted into existence this book is a fantastic look at design. Other Stuff: frontend… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…Warning: this is rambly and mostly a brain dump. Read on... Components. They are so hot right now. So hot. Like all the #hotness. They are flooding twitter, bouncing off the walls of board rooms,… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…UX. Performance is a huge part of UX. If you aren't already taking it into account in your designs you should start now. But realize our existing "design" tools aren't going to help… [more]
The Problem of Over Communication
…poses a serious problem to organizations. Before you read this and immediately write it off as just another rant, think about it. How often do you read internal emails? How about newsletters? How… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…me. If you don’t know who Jens is, I am sorry... Go read about him . He is a world class athlete who set aside his opportunities to win, to support the careers and aspirations of other members… [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
…object it is a subtype of, without any issues. I had to re-read the wikipedia page a ton before I finally found the example at the bottom and started to understand this one. So Liskov and CSS,… [more]
Toward a More Responsive Future
…device detection and responsive images. Take a moment and read through all the comments on sencha.io src’s documentation. It becomes clear pretty fast that their are some drastic limitations to… [more]
Moving the World
…our first President, George Washington. “I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations.… [more]
There is a Right Way
…a 9 year old with little experience create a mancala board ready to be finished in about 15 minutes. If you don’t do the setup work and research, at the beginning you will do it many times over… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…into everyday. I think it’s kind of elegant. Not as readable, sure. Still a neat trick for creating slightly more compact code. I wish I could take credit for it, but I found it reading through… [more]
11
…the morning of September 11th, 2001 I was 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… [more]
Hide the Admins
…posts on securing the railo admin. Particularrly after reading Marcos Placona’s post on doing this in Apache, I figured that something similar could be done in Cherokee. Turns out it can and… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…on to the application server. If you aren’t already on the handler tab go there and change the handler select box to ‘http reverse proxy.’ Scroll to the bottom to pick the round robin type… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…on to the application server. If you aren’t already on the handler tab go there and change the handler select box to ‘http reverse proxy.’ Scroll to the bottom to pick the round robin type… [more]
Current Projects Update
…process. Random LDS Talk : Every once in a while I want to read a random religious article so I wrote a quick ColdFusion app that parses the RSS feeds on LDS.org and redirects you to a random… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…cheaper then purchasing new ink cartridges for the one I already had. Printers, and not just the items they are used to produce, have in large part become ephemera. As this process of cheapification… [more]
Trust and the Box
…12 lifted of the pad on its way to the moon, the telemetry readings in mission control went haywire. They became garbled and non-sensical. In Mission Control the engineers sitting at their consoles… [more]