Working in software you come across a lot of different mindsets, one of my favorite mindsets is the one chasing difficulty. There’s invariably a variety of tasks to get a web application deployed to a customer. Some tasks will get you glory in a sprint review, like setting up a reactive UI or configuring an Django … [Read more…]
Recently, while going over my resume, I began reminiscing of my previous work experience. During my time at a previous job I had been a technical lead. I spent my time designing features, organizing and cleaning the code base, and mentoring other engineers. Unfortunately, my experience level was equal, if not less, than those around … [Read more…]
In this installment of ‘metaphors’, coincidentally the first installment, I’d like to talk about how we talk about the work we do on-the-whole. Also, please forgive me for all of the quotation marks, but I think they help the readability. If you ask an average software engineer about their day, they’ll usually say something like “I’m … [Read more…]
So, this is a ‘software engineering’ blog, let’s get that fact out of the way. And before you point it out for me, I already know that ‘software engineering’ is being covered by a lot of ninja, genius programmers. Some of whom have blogs that have been around for decades and many of which are … [Read more…]
