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The last week of my oncall shift has been pretty quite.

Using Business to Consumer SAAS means getting your UX broken all the time.

# format-patch creates a patch file # the -1 $COMMIT arguments take the last commit and put it into the file git format-patch -1 14ab6d…..

One of the senior engineers at my job is a big fan of PlantUML, so I recommended it to one of the junior guys who needed a diagramming tool.

New programmers sometimes ask me “what project should I work on next?”.

I was surfing reddit this week and I saw a great comment from u/Swordbow.

Project README flies are typically an after thought in the software development process.

I read REWORK by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson the founders of basecamp.

I started my software engineering career in consulting.

In College Computer Science Majors worry a lot about the optimal solution to algorithmic problems.

Some companies try to avoid developing software that doesn’t directly contribute to making money.

This post has moved to my new website estimating.dev.

I have gotten back into reading Software Engineering books.

Following on my earlier post “How much is turnover costing your company?”

This post has moved to my new website estimating.dev.

Have you ever had a great email thread about a feature?

The software industry has a turnover problem.

I am working on some materials around onboarding new engineers.

The typical agile process involves 5-10 people in a room.

Agile Rapid Delivery means you deliver bugs to your customers everyday.

We all know the feeling.

Now that I am working as an Individual Contributor again I actually get to do focused work.

Time has gone by faster than I expected.

resume_handbook Software Engineer Resume Handbook Introduction Many Software Engineers would rather ignore their resume.

This post is about some of the good parts of working at Amazon as a Developer.

https://presumably.de/monorepos-and-the-fallacy-of-scale.html Monorepositories are an interesting topic.

CI/CD is magical when it works.

Daily standups are a standard part of the software engineering life.

People often ask on r/cscareerquestions, “Can I just get this Java Certification instead of doing a Bootcamp or getting a CS degree”.

The Getting into Software Handbook has been released on Amazon.

The Sledgeworx Getting into Software Handbook is a brief guide on how to start a programming career without a Computer Science Degree.

Fearless Salary Negotiation (https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com** )** is a book about negotiating salaries after you get an offer.

The r/cscareerquestions sub-reddit gets all sorts of questions from software engineers about their careers.

In 2019 it has become standard practice to download dependencies straight off of the internet without verifying the code is secure and free of bugs.

As a new Software Engineer it is hard to know how much time the job search should take.

What does it mean to make your boss look smart?

Computer programmers have been arguing about programming languages for decades.

The consulting firm or agency model in application development is based on programmer hours.

https://www.butterflynetwork.com I saw this personal ultrasound device last week.

I recently launched www.seattledatingpics.com for my photography work.

You don’t realize how much switching jobs sucks until you do it.

When you are working on a feature it makes sense to make incremental commits as you proceed with the work.

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

I spent the first three years of my career at a small agency/consulting firm.

A lot of people feel that they are underpaid or that their job sucks.

I have been a programmer for about 5 years at this point and as part of that I have read 10,000s of lines of documentation, lots of books and solved plenty of problems.

On my last project as an architect, I found myself drifting into an architecture strategy of keeping everything as simple as possible.

I have a standing invitation, if you want to talk about software I want to talk to you.

I am moving to a new job in a different state.

Often to save money or for convenience people will buy a multitool or generalized tool instead of a specialized tool.