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I recently read Max Stoiberās post on Gratitude Circles and was inspired to build an app for it! Why an app? First, you canāt see handwriting. I am super embarrassed by my clumsy handwriting. Typing though, thank gosh for auto-correct. š Try Uplift! Uplift is an app for running
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In engineering culture, we sometimes refer to managers and Staff Engineers as āshit umbrellasā for their team. Iāve never liked this idea. It paints a picture that individual leaders create a peaceful oasis for their team while chaos reigns outside. Sounds nice to be one of those engineers! Not
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In tech, we talk about āBlameless Postmortems.ā What does this mean? Why are we talking about blame? I think the phrase āBlameless Postmortemā has a strong connection to git blame, the command we use to find context on what work was done together and who wrote the code. git blame
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I always ship multiple milestones. Too many projects fail to deliver because they are built from the ground up without proving value and testing the work.
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During growth periods, I learn something new daily. Each line of code I write is thrilling, every project plan has a broad impact, and I receive positive feedback every minute. Plateaus come abruptly.
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Problems that matter are problems business leaders care about. Learn what your business leaders care about and look at your work through their eyes.
ai
AI is changing my job and yours, and it is a reflection of the failings of our socio-cultural and technical systems. These are two conclusions I've come to in my deep dive into AI developer tools in the past two weeks. And I'm not alone: * Test
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As software developers it is our job to test our assumptions. So how do you go about knowing, testing, and rethinking them?
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In my last post, Strategy First, I explored the importance of having principles behind technical strategy. Starting with guiding principles is important, but team members can feel left adrift if they are only left with principles and no specific actions. Will Larson suggests: ...executives are generally directionally correct but specifically
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Technical strategy is not about technology choices. It is about the principles we use to guide our technical decisions.