Neal Shyam

As a new dad with limited time and increased responsibilities, I can’t justify entire days hacking on my homelab.

After 15 years, I’m playing the guitar again.

Last year, I wrote an article about the top skills you need to succeed as a Product Manager.

I wrote this for The Muse after jumping back to a BigCo after a decade of small startups.

Another one from my time writing for The Muse — a breakdown of the technical and soft skills that actually separate good PMs from great ones.

One more from The Muse, for anyone gearing up for a full-stack interview loop — what to actually expect, and how to prepare for each format.

Stock options, coupled with a successful exit, have made some people quite wealthy.

Ever been called into the office early, for an all-hands meeting, seemingly apropos of nothing?

One of my friends got laid off last Thursday.

A reader emailed me recently, worried that she was relying too much on Google in order to complete her Computer Science assignments.

I joined my current company about a year ago.

If you claim to be an expert at something on your résumé, you’d better be able to back it up in an interview.

For the last decade, tech recruiting has put a lot of emphasis on “culture.”

Last week, I told you about my friend Sally, who negotiated a higher salary & better start date for her new job.

Last week, my friend Sally got a job offer and successfully negotiated both a higher salary and a more desirable start date. 🙌 Here’s how she did it: When the hiring manager called her about the offer, Sally asked for it in writing, via email.

According to Larry Wall, laziness is a virtue: “It’s the quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure.

If you’re unemployed and burning through your savings, you don’t have much leverage and should take the next solid opportunity that comes along.

In Agile software development, engineers think of time in terms of points & 1–2 week sprints.

Hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

Back in the ’60s, my pops graduated from the Railway College in Jamalpur, India and began his short career as a railway engineer.

It’s really easy to go overboard with new frameworks, languages, and technologies.

I got this email from my aparment building’s Google group: This is one of the best emails I’ve ever read.

It’s the middle of June and we’re approaching Q3.

Invented in the 1960s, it took two decades for plastic shopping bags to catch on with major U.S. grocery chains.

At fire houses in New York City, there’s an unwritten rule for new firefighters: on your first day, “knock with your elbows.”

“Where do you see yourself five years from now?”

A lot of developers rigidly bill themselves as a specific type of developer.

Let’s say you have a new product idea that will save millions of dollars.

Whether it’s an annual review, weekly 1:1, or a casual chat, talking to the boss isn’t something most people look forward to.

In 1789, Ben Franklin wrote that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Unsatisfied with your paycheck?

As you prepare your mind, body, and spirit for 2018, consider this: In the 1880s, American homesteaders used barbed wire fences to carry telephone signals, because telephone companies didn’t think it was cost effective to run cable in rural areas.

In software development, legacy comes with a negative connotation.

Last weekend, some guy caught a case of nerd rage over Google’s hamburger emoji.

“Proactive,” “self-starter,” “scrappy,” “internally motivated,” “hacker ethos,” you see these phrases in a lot of job descriptions.

In my opinion, Herman Melville’s short story, Bartleby, the Scrivener, should be required reading for software developers—especially those stepping into their first jobs.

During a meetup in New York City, I learned that until recently, a certain well known publisher of listicles and viral cooking videos used Perl on the back end.

Last week SoundCloud laid off hundreds of engineers & staff around the world.

There are two ways to look for a job.

Hey there, I still can’t you promise regular posts, but I am trying to write as often as I can!

Git@Me is still on hiatus, but I really wanted to publish this post.

When I started Git@Me, my life was very different.

In 1981, Brooke Shields coyly told us that nothing gets between her and her Calvin Klein jeans. 20 years later, Shalom Harlow and the Gap introduced us to stretch denim.

A few years ago, HubSpot made waves a web site that suggested you might not need jQuery.

There are a lot of annoying growth hacky things you can do to get people to stay on your site.

With iOS 10, Apple is finally giving iMessage some love.

So, I’ve been writing Git@Me continuously for about 3 years now.

This week’s project could be titled: Fun with Unity and it’s just plain cool.

The massive success of voice UIs like Siri, Google Now, Cortana, and Alexa, sometimes makes me nostalgic for the era when voice recognition was awful.

Web scraping is in the middle of an arms race.