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Growing as Makers • May 01, 2022

Career Evaluation: Top Tips for Making Your First Job Work for You

As you look for your first job, you are obviously being evaluated. But I would encourage you to also evaluate the evaluators.

Project & Team Management • Apr 28, 2022

Struggling with a Large Software Project? Takeaways from My First Corporate Experience

Key takeaways from my first big software project include asking lots of questions and "start at the root, end at the leaf."

Project & Team Management • Apr 27, 2022

The 10-Box Exercise: Where Estimate Rubber Hits the Calendar Road

The 10-box exercise is an agile planning tool that helps the team visualize the sprint schedule and account for how the actual calendar impacts delivery.

Extracurricular Activities • Apr 26, 2022

Generative Art: Dive Deeper With Recursion

Learn how to use recursion to create infinitely complex and beautiful pieces of generative art with just a few lines of code.

Project & Team Management • Apr 25, 2022

Solve Problems By Making Work More Visible

Sometimes, it's hard to see progress on a software project. Here are three problems I’ve been able to solve by making work more visible.

Culture • Apr 24, 2022

Is It Time To Ditch The Office Ping-Pong Table?

Are ping-pong tables and other games at work a meaningless perk? Or, is facilitating intentional play still an important part of building team culture?

Project & Team Management • Apr 23, 2022

Laughs a Metric for Gauging Client Engagement

Not every client’s culture welcomes laughter as a metric, but I've begun paying closer attention to changes in client engagement and demeanor.

Growing as Makers • Apr 22, 2022

Work Like You Are Working Out

I have started to think about my workdays more like a workout. This helps me set an intention, focus on smaller goals, and reflect on my progress.

React / Redux • Apr 21, 2022

Building a Terminal Wordle Game with React Ink

I recently decided to write my own Terminal Wordle and used Ink, a library that lets you build Terminal UI apps using the same patterns as web apps.

TypeScript • Apr 20, 2022

Requiring or Explicitly Excluding Component Properties with TypeScript

In a recent project, I want the user to provide a name for all required fields unless it's explicitly excluded. We used Typescript to do this.

Project & Team Management • Apr 19, 2022

Benchmarking: What Is It, and How Should You Incorporate It?

I love benchmarking exercises. Benchmarking is a relatively quick and lightweight method to generate ideas, suss out bad concepts, and create alignment.