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Nov 20, 2020

I as an engineer am not motivated by your speeches

I won’t speak for all engineers, but I will speak for myself. I don’t care about the grand vision of the company (most of the time). Engineers care about software. They want to create elegant, large, scalable, fault-tolerant systems. They are at your company to do that. …

Motivation

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I as an engineer am not motivated by your speeches
I as an engineer am not motivated by your speeches
Motivation

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Nov 9, 2020

Why developers leave — Heroes edition

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. …

Development

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Why developers leave — Heroes edition
Why developers leave — Heroes edition
Development

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Sep 18, 2020

How to become the person you’ve always wanted

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…

Self Improvement

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How to become the person you’ve always wanted
How to become the person you’ve always wanted
Self Improvement

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Sep 2, 2020

Why developers leave — poor-performing peers edition

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!). …

Careers

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Why developers leave — poor-performing peers edition
Why developers leave — poor-performing peers edition
Careers

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May 25, 2020

Playing your best hand

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…

Business Strategy

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Playing your best hand
Playing your best hand
Business Strategy

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May 28, 2019

Level up your team with a secret sauce — The Tech Approach

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. …

Programming

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Level up your more junior Developers with Tech Approaches
Level up your more junior Developers with Tech Approaches
Programming

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May 23, 2019

Only use const in Javascript (with React, but maybe always too)

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…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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May 23, 2019

Recursive lists in React using Context

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. …

React

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Recursive lists in React using Context
Recursive lists in React using Context
React

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Blake Wight

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Senior Fullstack Engineer at Route www.linkedin.com/in/blakewight/

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