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How and Why I’m Improving My Developer Vocabulary

Since I've started actively trying to improve my developer vocabulary, I've seen benefits that extend beyond mentoring other developers.

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Building My Support Team Early & Other Things I’m Doing Differently in My Second Pregnancy

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What I Learned from a Quarter of Intentional Growth

I’ve always believed that growth requires intentionality. Progress does not happen by accident – it takes deliberate effort and focus.

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Tickets to Commits: What IT Work Taught Me About Writing Code

Here are a few ways my experience working in IT has been a superpower as I’ve transitioned into software development.

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Build a System to Learn and Remember Technical Topics as a Developer

Build a personal knowledge system combining Drafts, ChatGPT Study Mode, and Anki to capture, understand, and retain new technical insights.

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Using Docker for Atomic Games Deployment

We've always written the game boards in Clojure and distributed them via a JAR file. This year, we tried using Docker instead, and it went very well!

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