leadership 5 Tips for New Managers: Things I Wish I Had Known All of the things that I wish I had known when I was becoming a first-time manager.
technology Featured 5 Myths of Bad Managers I've discovered that there are a few things that from the outside might make someone seem like a bad manager but are often mirages that obscure the truth.
cloud Featured What Comes After the Cloud? There's nothing wrong with the cloud, per se, but there's certainly enough to be unhappy about that might make someone contemplate the next move for their architecture.
jobs Total Compensation Is A Lie There’s been a trend emerging in the job market that is actively hurting job seekers in ways that may not be immediately noticable.
talent acquisition The DEI Issue No One Is Talking About You can do everything else right, but if your DEI initiative doesn’t also address this one thing…well, you’re doing it wrong.
open source You Don’t Deserve Free Software This is going to be short, but it’s something that I have been seeing in increasing frequency and I’m sick and tired of it.
database 7 Database Concepts You Should Know About There’s a lot to know about databases, so let's start with the basics
development My Code Stinks and That's OK An impassioned defense of “code smells” and why tech bloggers have gone insane
development Three DevOps Trends to Pay Attention To Wherein I package my gut feelings about the tech industry as insider information.
development 4 Ways to Break Out of That Slump We get stuck in ruts, the developer’s version of the yips, and sometimes we don’t know how to get out. Here’s four ideas on things you can do to try and get out and grow as a developer.
development Hypocritical Gophers Go is the COVID-19 of languages; it spread really fast, it didn’t seem that bad at first, but it sucks and I hate it.
development 5 (More) Rules of Code Five more things that make your life as a developer easier, saner, and overall more enjoyable
talent acquisition Why You Can’t Find Good Engineering Talent Some guy on the internet talks about baseball, Moises Alou, Kubernetes, and blue hair
talent acquisition 5 Things You Need To Stop Doing in Interviews Some guy on the internet tells you some things he’s learned, or something.
development 9 Things Every Developer Should Do A random guy on the internet tells you 9 more things loosely related to development
development 10 Things Every Developer Should Learn Or, “some guy on the internet tells you how to be a better developer”
development Secure Docker Containers Require Secure Applications Understanding How Containers Work is the First Step to Understanding How to Secure Them
development Agile/Scrum Is Bullshit While the original intent for the agile methodology might have been good the implementations we see today are far from productive.
human resources People Are Not Resources My job hasn’t been replaced by a robot just yet, which means last time I checked software engineers were squishy meat-bags called “people”
development The Silver Algorithm With great power comes great responsibility, and the possibility for shenanigans; use your power for good.
development Never Lose Sight of What You Do We tend to think in closed circles when it comes to who will consume our product and what kind of impact that has on the rest of the “food chain”, but maybe we’re wrong for limiting our thinking like that.
