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What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…in this specific place, for a long time. As opposed to technē , the systematic and theoretical knowledge that can be written down, taught in a classroom, and handed over in a manual. The pilot who… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…speed of code production increases, we have to deal with technical design issues next week that might not have appeared for months or years in the past. Pragmatic Conductor Knows the difference… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…that deliver real value to companies, while still being technical enough to contribute both in code and architecture. I have consulted with companies to identify architectural bottle necks, to… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…the company. Which… hiring outside leadership for a technical engineering role is really really fraught. Even more so if it is for a remote role. There are reasons that the Chesapeake Bay… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…Can speak to the projects the team is working on, both technically and in terms of progress Is not taking blocking tasks (unless carefully considering trade offs) Team receives promotions in a time… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…to bring someone to speak to us who worked outside 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… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…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 hard mental shift for individual contributors… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…Days, the largest rodeo in the world at the time. Their techniques were different, their approaches distinct, these "interlopers" didn't just struggle to fit in to the extremely white… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
Delays and technical issues bias us against others experiencing them. This comes from "Why are you so slow? - Misattribution of transmission delay to attributes of the conversation partner at the… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
…android, this is the role for you. About Lumio Product and Technology We believe that power is personal, and are working to help people have greater control of their power. Solar is a beginning for… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…both illuminating and exhausting. I’d been on the technical review side before, which helped give me some perspective. For anyone interested there has got to be a better way to handle this… [more]
Antisemitism ends with us
…can we do to fight antisemitism and build a better Utah tech community? A good first step is to work with your company's leadership group to sign the pledge started by Utah Tech Leads . Speaking… [more]
2020: A year
This has been a crazy 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… [more]
A Simple QR Code Based System for Organizing Your Boxes
Recently we had our second child, and that meant digging through a bunch of boxes in the basement to find leftover baby clothes and gear. After not being able to find a few things we were pretty sure… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
This is going 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… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…Network have made developing web apps cool. Creating a tech startup has become the chosen path of upward mobility. Add that to a world where the financial barriers to entry are low and you have a… [more]
Death to Jquery
…’Death to jQuery’ at Pandamonium, our internal Tech Conference at Instructure, because honestly it’s time. jQuery was critical to the development of the web, it is the reason that… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
…word, but did not actually understand it. For us it was technical speech conveying an important concept clearly and simply. For them it was jargon. Which brings us back to the article and this… [more]
Getting Lost and Happiness
…idea that the car cost more, or was more valuable, or more technologically advanced. He was into the box because he saw a character on a TV show called Hamilton the pig, who lives inside a box. He… [more]
Biology and CSS
…magic sometimes, but so does any sufficiently advanced technology. [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…was working on a team building a web app. It had some new technical challenges that we had never tackled, and we were just beginning to gel as a team. We were also all young, smart, talented,… [more]
There is a Right Way
…project we tackle. Constraints should drive the choice of technology, team structure, and process. There is a saying that when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, that has to be avoided… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…that are happening right now. “We have advanced technologically so far, and yet somehow it’s almost some sort of paranoia where we are afraid to really say: we live in the third… [more]