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Why Software Craftsmanship Needs to be Financially Viable

The de facto method of career advancement in our industry is organizational fracture, creating widespread mediocrity and inefficiency.

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Six Months with an Apple Watch

How well my Apple Watch has performed as "a watch, a new way to connect with each other, and a comprehensive health and fitness companion."

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Does Empathy for Users Blind Us?

Once we’re in the head of our users, we should automatically understand exactly what it is that they need, right? If only that were true.

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Embracing Diversity in the Workplace

Letting issues compound the complexities of working with others can make things worse. We need to accept and embrace our differences and work together.

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Teaching Strangers to Code

After I became a programmer, I opened the site where I had first started and posted a new thread: “Who wants to learn to code?”

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How to Fight Unconscious Bias & Become a Better Ally

Putting an unbiased foot forward and demonstrating equal treatment is how you lead in building a tech society that carries less unconscious bias overall.

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Domain-Specific Languages vs. Notation

A truly domain-specific language is like math notation: it's well suited for both expressing solutions and solving problems.

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Pushing Past Logos: Weekend Blitz & Design’s Evolving Role

Designers are taking initiative and questioning the bigger picture to identify the real problem instead of jumping straight into a solution.

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A Strategy for Teaching Programming – Logic First

Teaching programming logic-first instead of syntax-first will create programmers who can problem solve and start implementing useful code on their own.

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“Worse Is Better” 25 Years Later – Have We Gotten Lazy?

Worse-is-better only works when you understand the right-thing and can rationally choose a compromise.

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Girls Like to Code (but Not All of them Know It)

Surprise! Girls and women who are exposed to technology enjoy it and succeed at it.

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If Your Users Are Unhappy, It’s Broken

"Better software" is software that makes our users' lives just a little easier. If it doesn't meet that goal, it's useless. Sometimes worse than useless.

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