A few weeks ago, I posted my spin on the MacLeod Hierarchy and promised to follow up with a post addressing the kind of vacuous, non-strategic career advice that is often given in Buzzfeed sorts of formats. I started, then, to type this post, but realized that a bridge of sorts was needed. So I indulged…
It’s been an interesting week with respect to my philosophy about the future of labor for knowledge workers. This post about corporate idealists and seniority got relatively popular and attracted around 10,000 readers. If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you know that one was just the latest in a series of a few…
Having fixed some bugs in the last few episodes, it would have been nice to make some progress with functionality, but there was housekeeping to be done first. I did some refactoring for board setup using the tables, compacting methods, and made the implementation of the moves checker correct. This will put me on much…
A while ago, I released a course on Pluralsight entitled, “Making the Business Case for Best Practices.” There was an element of tongue-in-cheek to the title, which might not necessarily have been the best idea in a medium where my profitability is tied to maximizing the attractiveness of the title. But, life is more fun…
This was kind of a wild episode, inasmuch as recording oneself writing code gets wild. This was the second bug driven out by the acceptance tests, but this one was subtle and buried fairly deep in the application logic. This was another half hour episode as I employed a variety of techniques for hunting down…
