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What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…the other side in The Shepherd's Life , and I have thoughts about what a mixed seniority team has in common with a mixed planting... but that isn't the topic at hand, which is why it's… [more]
the megaphone
…after the meeting, do it. If it means asking for their thoughts in the meeting, do it. But, make sure you know which one they prefer before you do it. ↩ [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
…life easier in the future, and maybe yours, I took those thoughts and produced this template repo . It gives us a nice central place to keep information, self publishes a private module, and some… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…for a new role begins in earnest. So I am dropping some thoughts and links here. Why am I looking for a new role? The company that I was at (Lumio) has ended in bankruptcy which puts me out of work. I… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…and into something more fleshed out. Here we go! Some thoughts on engineering leadership a thread (and not a long one) -> — Daniel Sellers (@daniel_sellers) April 15, 2022 This is the… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…around innovation and its history. ↩ I have so many thoughts on interviewing and how it should and shouldn't be done! But I am not going to sidetrack us with them here. Someday I'll get them… [more]
10 Valentines
…joy and pain New worries stole our sleep Occupied our thoughts New joys too Filled our hearts Occupied our thoughts At times our world shook We clung together Hearts knitting tighter Through far off… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…such simplistic thinking." Besides those profound thoughts it's just a fun fun ride that is over as quickly as a ride on a bronco's back. [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
These are rough thoughts and should be taken as such. Think of them more as the interesting points that deserve thought in a context that the author of the paper (Andrea Bonaccorsi) was not… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…ramping up, slowing down, generally continuing to drag on. Thoughts I am excited for 2022. 2022! How did that happen? This year has been a real learning journey for me. On the business/work side of… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…you some time. I’ll also toss in a some notes or thoughts about a book where it seems reasonable. Things Worth Reading First and foremost I joined the Association for Computing Machinery this… [more]
Peace settled on the watchers quickly. Slowing their…
Peace settled on the watchers quickly. Slowing their heart rates, relaxing their muscles, blurring their thoughts. It felt wrong. [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…write more and more quickly... so this is just a few quick thoughts from learning flow and redux right now for a new project I just switched to at work. First, I love the theoretical idea of redux.… [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
…empty... which hopefully means that Amazon shut them down. Thoughts on avoiding this stuff This scam is super easy to pull off. It’s simplicity is mind-blowing. So to avoid it in the future I am… [more]
Being Senior Part 1- the books and data
…at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long form post which should hopefully be up in the next couple days. So with no further ado… here is the anonymized data… [more]
mourning
…think about the wounded, both mentally and physically. My thoughts are with you and my prayers as well. I am also deeply disappointed in our response to this tragedy as a people and nation. Everyone… [more]
Seven Languages
…along I am also going to be writing up my experiences and thoughts and such. For some of the languages this should be pretty easy... for others it’s going to be a slog. For instance I really… [more]
estimations and theory building
My team lead at Instructure , Dan Dorman passed this fantastic article from 1985 by Peter Naur around the team a few days ago. It’s entitled Programming as Theory Building and discusses the idea… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
TLDR: Create small shared granular components for everything, and a "view" is just an ordered collection of components. Warning: this is rambly and mostly a brain dump. Read on... Components. They are… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…this better then I can here. To wrap this up, a few quick thoughts: It’s not about you, it’s about the team It’s not about being right, it’s about doing the right thing The… [more]
Audio and Old Androids
…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 tags. They… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…servers. It’s fast. As always if you have questions, thoughts, criticism shoot me an email or @ reply me on twitter. Good luck out there! PS: if you sign up for blitz.io and use this link I'll… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…servers. It’s fast. As always if you have questions, thoughts, criticism shoot me an email or @ reply me on twitter. Good luck out there! PS: if you sign up for blitz.io and use this link I'll… [more]