Adventures in Coding

A Claude skill is easy to build.

My wife and I enjoy playing Monopoly Go, and I often find myself wanting to simulate different parts of the game just to run analysis on different aspects of gameplay.

Through every step of acquiring a new job you are telling a story.

In the software development community October brings Hacktoberfest, a month long event centered around getting more people involved in the open source community.

It's extremely common in tech that we find ourselves debating the best way to do something.

What is Hacktoberfest?

There's a trope among developers of the people that have a "great idea" for an app or website, but no coding skills or knowledge.

After studying Uncle Bob's Clean Code and trying to practice it as much as possible, I find that it can make a huge improvement to the maintainability or even just readability of a piece of code.

Once you have figured out a way into your first software development role, it is only logical that you would consider how you can move forward in your career.

This material is a summary of a talk by Uncle Bob that I watched on YouTube Regardless of age, race, gender as developers we share a passion for something, and can communicate about it in a way that most other people can't.

After spending several hours listening to his talks, it occured to me that this information is needed by all developers and perhaps may be beyond the immediate consideration of beginners.

I see several content creators doing things in their posts that are easily done with the tools built into the DEV/Forem tooling.

Over the last couple of weeks I've had various people that I respect suggesting different tools to me and I've been really happy with the results.

I recently started a new job, and it's only the second that I've had in my dev career.

I hear questions like this one at least once per week.

In order to advance as a developer you need more than just online resources.

Jobs come and go, and the long reaching career is each of our goals.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy One of the biggest issues with getting older is that it's harder to make friends once you are out of school.

I grew up in a white middle-class home with both of my parents.

My team owns 16 applications that act as a single system managing a large hierarchical data set.

What are ways that we can write better code?

While working on my resume, I've had a TON of good advice from a the Slack server of CodeConnector and they have actually been the source material for some of my other posts.

As a developer with ADHD I've found myself frequently talking about bullet journaling.

Agile (Capital A) is something that many/most software development teams are adopting, whether that is pure Agile, Safe, Scrum, Kanban, or some other thing that I don't know.

I find it hard to understand that sexism still exists in 2020.

Here I found a pretty good explanation of logging.

It's a recurring theme among tech communities to reflect and offer advice to the newcomers.

In this information age, driven largely by social media and online interactions it is common for people to self identify as anti-social, but I think this is a bit of a misnomer.

We often talk about what makes a good developer and how to deal with things specifically in and around the tech industry, but I believe that most of it really comes down to how we live our life.

Last fall I had the joy of working through a PI in my company's cloud readiness dojo, and it was really fun and exciting to those of us that like to play with new tech (oddly enough, not my entire dev team).

I've been working since New Year's trying to write something daily without completing it.

When your work involves typing and manipulating data files with many different sources then you wind up with different tasks that can be accomplished in many ways.

Blogging Guidelines I was reading How To Make Dev Better In 2020 and thought that it would be really valuable to consider some guidelines for our blogging.

While writing about using Markdown to boost productivity in note taking I thought that maybe some people might be interested. in this configuration.

I recently found myself with four different files opened long term in Notepad++ that all centered around one set of changes that I was working on, and that seemed a bit absurd.

Traditional Best Practices It is typically accepted that any code that is needed in more than one place should be abstracted away somewhere.

I've now been working as a developer for five years, but along the way I never felt like my skill level had improved.

I started down this road after a simple engagement on Twitter with Brob and he suggested that I start blogging on dev.to and even went so far as to say that I should think about posting to my own site and syndicating over dev.to.

Yesterday morning I woke up to find a comment had been made on an old answer that I'd posted to Stack Overflow, and I opened up the site.