Alright, screw it. Let’s burn the boats. I said I wasn’t going to get into this until I released the book, but the idealist career advice post I had planned doesn’t make sense without a discussion of corporate seniority. If you haven’t read this recent post, in which I outline the terms pictured below, you’ll probably want…
A bit of time went by between when I recorded the code and when I narrated it, so pardon the unusual amount of rust there. But this episode was particularly interesting because an actual bug emerged and I fixed it. Yay for acceptance tests. After that, a second bug emerged, but I ran out of…
Think back to being a kid, and you can probably remember a rather dubious rite of passage that occurred when you figured out that you weren’t going to be a sports player, lead singer, or Hollywood star. You probably felt sad, but your parents and older siblings likely breathed sighs of relief that you’d never be…
I’m writing a quick post tonight in response to a question I received today. I actually intended to address this later, but I have a number of posts about what Michael O Church calls CS666 in various stages of readiness, and I’m trying to juggle not offering rabble-rousing cynicism without solutions, avoiding a stream-of-consciousness brain dump…
This episode went so poorly, I thought briefly about scrapping it and starting from scratch… but that would not be true to the premise I established at the outset where I’d do this unedited, flubs and all. Having finished with the AsciiBoardBuilder, it was time to start putting Darren Cauthon’s ideas into play. You can…
