Have you ever been on a team with someone that was the “Hero?” When things went bump in the night, he was there, when someone committed un-reviewed code, he was there, when customers couldn’t log in to production accounts, HE WAS THERE. This sounds great. In the beginning, it is. …

And why goals might not be the ticket — Meet Greg Greg is a normal dude with ambitions and goals. He wants to start making money on the side. He has decided that he can make some money by writing Medium articles online. (smart guy!) He has set some goals for himself to develop his writing skills. As Greg is just…

I just read something that a friend posted about a low-performing member of a team that reminded me of being on a team where this happened. I got frustrated, I started taking interview requests from LinkedIn, and I left (with a decent pay bump!). …

How Amazon warps the business world I work in tech and have seen companies refuse to buy software hosted in the cloud. I have seen large tech stacks uprooted and moved from AWS to new providers to score big clients that are afraid of competing with Amazon. I have thought…

I was on a team where my manager suggested that I move from to find a team that better fit with my goals and personality. I was switched to a new team within the week. …

I have been trying to find a good article on the advantages of const over let. Unfortunately, all I get is a bunch of articles about how var is dead (it’s not, and is different from both let and const), and that you should abandon it for the new hotness…

Photo by Markus Spiske temporausch.com from Pexels Recently I have been working a lot with recursive trees, and displaying them in React. While working with them I came up with a pattern that I like, and that I want to share with those that run into this pattern. …