I haven’t traveled this week (at least, not for work). As a result of that, I’ve sat at home, where I tend to have somewhat higher social media consumption. I therefore couldn’t help but see this post about “confessing coding sins.” Twitter has, apparently, overflowed with established software developers ‘confessing’ that they would fail Gigantech…
Today, I’m going to try to tie various strands of my life together into one lanyard of efficiency. I haven’t done a reader question for a while, so I’ll change that today. In this post, I’ll offer a terminology nod to dead seas, a now-defunct term that became one of my favorites. The best context…
If I think through the corpus of posts I’ve published, it seems they rarely focus on concerns at the entry level. Or, at least, at the entry level of software, specifically. Today, I’d like to look at a reader question about getting that first programming job. My question is, what if I’m not exactly a…
I’ve fallen off my cadence with answering reader questions of late, so I’d like to correct that today. The question in question is a fairly straight forward one about how to find good recruiters. This one is actually lifted from a comment some time back that I thought would be more conducive to a post…
It’s been a rather frustrating few weeks for me, at least in terms of getting things done at home. One of the cables on my garage door got off of its track somehow, and my time is at a premium, so I set about hiring someone to fix it. I went onto Angie’s List to see if I could…
