3/13/2024

• The Programmers of the Future - by Justin M.

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  Substack

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3/10/2024

• Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude.

  When interviewing, particularly for technical positions, many people over value their technical preparation, and don't consider the importance of personality and leadership preparation.

  Dave Anderson

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1/18/2024

• Life lessons from a 44 year old.

  Don’t exercise to be thin. Exercise to be strong. The best place for ideas is alone and on the move. Start or end every day with writing about your life. Take what’s in your head and type it out, even if you don’t feel like you are thinking anything of note. There’s always something buried underneath the to do list in your head, something you didn’t realise you felt, that when written down, will make everything clearer.

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12/29/2023

• Dunning–Kruger Effect - The Decision Lab

  Dunning–Kruger Effect explains why the least competent at a task often incorrectly rate themselves as high-performers because they do not know otherwise.

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• The Worst Kind of Programmer | Alexander Mikhailian

  After 25 years of my career I came to understand that one particular type of programmers is the source of many problems in our industry. Here is the story of a project that was nearly destroyed by two such programmers. One of them was leading frontend development, the other – backend. While the rest of the team was slacking off because business requirements were in the works, these two chaps were working hard.

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11/25/2023

• Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory
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11/22/2023

• You Rarely Get Greenfield Projects (Or Do You?) | Tom McFarlin

  If courses teach you’ll be building more greenfield projects than not, I’d be hesitant to consider it a well-rounded education in software development.

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11/16/2023

• How to Build Trust as a New Engineering Manager

  New managers often want to get everything right from the get-go. But, ironically, that would be their first mistake. Why? Because that's the total opposite of authenticity.

  Jiovanni Rosario

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10/22/2023

• ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook: The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams

  The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

  ZachGoldberg

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9/2/2023

• The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd
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7/31/2023

• 17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager – charity.wtf

  Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor…

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7/18/2023

• Yes! And...

  How to be effective in the theatre of work

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7/4/2023

• How to Do Great Work

  If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.

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6/25/2023

• Small tech companies are staying remote to attract workers, while Big Tech goes back to the office - Vox

  How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys.

  Rani Molla

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• How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don’t Hate | Stay SaaSy

  We’ve talked about How To Be A PM That Engineers Don’t Hate, now let’s talk about it in the other direction.

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5/7/2023

• The Messy Page - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill

  Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

  Thorsten Ball

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12/28/2022

• The Impotence of Being Clever | Hope Itself | Issues | The Hedgehog Review

  The cleverness that proliferates in public life today is a nuisance.

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• Aging programmer

  Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f...

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• Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer — Holloway

  A practical guide to self-confidence, personal growth, teamwork, learning, communication, and delivering results—the soft skills that every programmer needs to thrive in their job and be ready for a senior role.

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