Personal Optimization • Jan 07, 2024 Personality Assessments at Work: Gain Self-Awareness and Empathy for Colleagues Personality assessments can provide self-awareness and insights into interpersonal dynamics, which can translate to personal growth.
Growing as Makers • Jan 06, 2024 Progress: An Exploration of Growth It can be difficult to track, measure, or describe a sense of progress, especially early on in your career.
AI for Developers • Jan 05, 2024 Automate the Mundane Stuff with AI GPT-4 Turbo is the tool that’s been keeping me sane as I automate the mundane stuff so I can focus on the big picture.
C# • Jan 02, 2024 Navigating the Dotnet Landscape: Learning C# After Years of Typescript While I've primarily worked on TypeScript applications during my time at Atomic, a recent project had me delving into the dotnet ecosystem.
Development Practices • Dec 28, 2023 Technical Spikes: A Recipe So you’ve been assigned a technical spike — where do you start? The following is my general process for tackling technical spikes.
Developer Tools • Dec 19, 2023 Clerk: The Authentication Platform Optimized for Speed If you are willing to hand off some granular feature control for speed in the user authetication area, Clerk is an especially fantastic tool.
Project & Team Management • Dec 16, 2023 Scouting – A Technique for Settling Pair Programming Disputes Use this scouting technique to settle disputes and build alignment around the best path forward while pair programming.
Extracurricular Activities • Dec 15, 2023 Takeaways from Making a Music Video with Geometry Nodes Here, learn the most important steps if you'd like to make a music video using Blender Geometry Nodes.
Project & Team Management • Dec 13, 2023 If You Don’t Like Scrum, You’re Probably Using it Wrong I sometimes hear from people in tech: "I hate scrum and don’t think it provides any value." That probably means they're doing scrum wrong.
Personal Optimization • Dec 12, 2023 Harness the Power of Narrative Patterns Learn a simple narrative pattern to help you tell effective, complete, and impactful stories in many professional situations.
Project & Team Management • Dec 09, 2023 Establish a Client-Consultant Integrated Team Model in Software Development Discover the elements of successful client-consultant integrated teams in software development and how they lead to software solutions.
Personal Optimization • Dec 02, 2023 Tips for Successful Remote Work I recently spent a week of working vacation in California. Here are a few tips I will focus on while working remotely in the future.