Dan Dreams of Coding

Writing a blog is weird.

This is the second post in a series of advanced technical topics.

A couple of years back, I ran a series of posts which tried to explain what it meant to achieve mastery in software engineering, including a tongue-in-cheek answer to the question of what it meant to work on hard problems.

I’ve had the luxury of working at a number of companies with strong engineering cultures.

Learning piano is hard.

The software industry has gone through a lot of changes in my lifetime.

Negotiation is hard.

The business model is well-understood – the same as any casino or street corner hustler: get the user addicted, then raise the price.

Interviewing is a strange process.

There’s a guy I used to work with.

McDonald’s is objectively delicious.

Alice completes half as many story points as anyone else on the team.