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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses” — common quote This is a fun statement if you think about it.

Becoming a ‘Senior’ engineer in three years is a ridiculous concept.

How do you hash out architecture and design at a remote only company?

Voice assistants are wide software.

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This post was developed in conjunction with my talk of the same name for Spring into SledgeConf 2021 My belief is that most tech startups going forward will be 100% remote.

https://sledgeconf.dev Our next SledgeConf is coming on Friday May 21st at 4:30pm PST!

My belief is that most tech startups going forward will be 100% remote.

I experienced a lot of burnout last year.

There are a ton of titles in the software industry.

Most people think of technological advances using the eureka metaphor.

Being on-call for software can suck.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/science/windows-street-noise.html Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise but Keep Your Window Open They will integrate these speakers into windows/walls and make it smaller Concept of ‘feature store’ for typed ML model…

Few of the software leviathans are built in functional languages.

Why I’m not worried about H1B, outsourcing or remote work.

One day in Spring 1989, I was sitting out on the Lucid porch with some of the hackers, and someone asked me why I thought people believed C and Unix were better than Lisp.

Dis-economies of scale, why FAANG pays high salaries, the dominance of Java The top end of software engineering jobs are dominated by what I’ve started thinking of as ‘Software Leviathans’, large software systems that are staffed by thousands of engineers.

I’ve been an avid twitter user for years, but had to stop this winter.

I’ve dealt with burnout many times in my 6 years as a software engineer.

Here are some links I have seen lately that were pretty interesting.

I envisioned SledgeConf as a tiny in person conference, inspired by https://briancasel.com/tiny-conferences/.

August 7th 2020 3-5pm PST 4-6pm MTN Times in Mountain below 4PM: Sean Michael : Micro Frontends 4:50: Break 5PM: Nicholas Sledgianowski : Business Intelligence Publishing Pitfalls 5:50: Closing discussion Sign up to the Mailing List for the zoom link when…

There is a dichotomy in software engineering organizations, some only use public tooling, entirely avoiding building their owns tools.

I’ve been working on a website with file uploads lately and after a bunch of googling put together a solution using stimulus.js instead of jQuery as not using jQuery is the thing now.

SledgeConf is a remote ‘tiny conference’ focused on the software industry and software development.

We are open to talk submissions for SledgeConf 2020.

“If customers are paying for the work, presumably by the hour, then you can’t expect them to pay for weeks (or more) of work every few years just to arrive back at the same product they started with.” - From reddit user /u/PragmaticFinance People have the…

SledgeConf is a tiny conference for software industry professionals.

At this point, in person conferences with 1000s of attendees are done for the year.

As your career progresses recruiters will start to spam you with lower quality jobs.

**** Avoid blackboxes in your tech stack.

I’ve been lucky enough not to be laid off yet, and have been plunged headfirst in working from home.

Don’t do it to yourselves Don’t do it to customers Do the work to make a good product Enterprise software sucks.

Business Intelligence is the process of exposing the results of customer workflows in an easy to consume fashion for Business Analysts, Accountants and Executives.

One failure mode I’ve seen in software organizations is multiple promotions for building the same solution to a problem.

The importance of auto-scaling peak to trough traffic The cloud enables us to acquire hardware on demand for our services.

What should your development environment look like?

So you finally have established good development practices for your team.

It’s a common statement that once you are a senior engineer you don’t get to code anymore.

I have launched a new website, estimating.dev to focus on software development estimates.

Scalability has been all the rage since the cloud made horizontal scaling easy.

I had a Matias Ergo Pro mac version for about 3 years, purchased in May 2016.

[This is a draft from my in progress handbook on running software in production] Load testing helps us estimate how much load our system can handle.

Most of us have productivity swings.

It seems like we get lots of questions on the subreddit r/cscareerquestions about working at a consulting company.

Because you use it all the time at least one piece of software is broken for you at all times.

Software Updates are a liability for customers.

Here are some interesting links I’ve come across over the last few months.

I have worked with a bunch of companies that launched major initiatives to move their hardware onto the public cloud.