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How love lessons can land you a great job (even in a down tech market)
May 21, 2024
What allows you to successfully navigate dating can also give you an edge in a competitive talent market. Communication, not AI, is the superpower.
leadership
Programming paradigms: how to pick a programming language that won’t get in your way
Aug 12, 2023
How languages can be categorized by their major features—and what paradigms are especially good at solving different kinds of problems.
Managing agile at scale
Jun 27, 2020
A review of agile frameworks, the problems companies hit when they try to scale them, and the patterns that are actually working today.
Getting hired in tech
Oct 19, 2019
A strategy for standing out as a uniquely qualified candidate in a noisy field of prospects—without turning the job hunt into a numbers game.
Roughing it dev style: coding without a computer (live)
Nov 16, 2018
How I shipped a version-controlled project for a week with only an iPhone, and what that taught me about working under constraint.
computerless
Return of the creative web
Aug 6, 2018
Why many of us got into the field in the first place—and how new browser APIs, mixed reality, and indie communities are reviving the joy.
Freelance Web App with Rails API 5.1 and React Frontend: Part 2 - Getting set up
Nov 16, 2017
The first commits of a Rails-API + React project, including the documentation scaffolding most projects defer until it’s sorely missed.
tutorials
Freelance Web App with Rails API 5.1 and React Frontend: Part 1 - Why?
Nov 14, 2017
Picking a stack for a freelance CRM, and writing down the reasoning before the code makes it harder to change.
tutorials
Roughing it dev style: coding without a computer
Apr 18, 2017
The week my Surface Pro died, and how an iPhone, Buffer Editor and a Digital Ocean droplet kept me shipping.
tutorialscomputerless
Getting Started with Jekyll: Part 2 - Meeting Jekyll’s demands
Jan 17, 2017
All the Ruby-side moving parts a self-hosted Jekyll blog needs before it’ll actually deploy.
metabloggingtutorials
Getting Started with Jekyll: Part 1- Servers and SSH
Jan 7, 2017
Standing up a Digital Ocean droplet for the blog—non-root user, key-only auth, Nginx, firewall—before any of the Jekyll bits arrive.
metabloggingtutorials
Ways to involve young kids when coding
Jan 2, 2017
Working parents don’t always have a choice but to juggle their responsibilities—here’s how I managed.
parenting