soft skills

A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations

I set out to find a simple definition that would help managers frame the fundamental things they expect from software engineers.

Does it HAVE to be Daily?

I was recently asked to help resolve an escalation at work. It had already bounced around between a few people, and was very muddied with conflicting reports not to mention frustration that the issue existed in the first place. Apparently I am insane, because I like situations like this.

Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed…

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UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of sponsorship. I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially

Using personality clues strategically to stress test potential hires

Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged

Cutting out the news has been one of the best lifestyle decisions I've made in recent years, second only to cutting out social media (though the two are not mutually exclusive). Reducing my intake of what is essentially junk information has significantly reduced anxiety and worry in my day to day life, and has freed up more of my time to pursue other interests and deeper reading. I'm able to concentrate better because there are less disruptions. My view is that "the news" primarily exists to keep consumers entertained rather than keeping citizens informed, very rarely presenting us with useful...

Related . The consist of four software delivery measurements. When code is committed to a source control repository (e.g., Git) When that code is de...

Discover the differences between Kanban and Scrum—features, workflows, and benefits—to determine which Agile framework fits your development team’s project management style.

Controlling a complex system is rarely as effective as allowing it to self-organize: markets work better than planning committees; diverse ecosystems are more robust than monocultures. What would it mean to apply this idea to education?

Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.

Study in rats shows that a key brain signal linked to memory formation deteriorates after broken sleep. Study in rats shows that a key brain signal linked to memory formation deteriorates after broken sleep.

23 August 2010 - San Francisco

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland