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🎓 Why Seniors embrace bug bashing and site reliability duties.
Bug fixing might not be glamorous, but it can often be challenging, fulfilling, and a great source of knowledge and experience.
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🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.
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A Snowy Last-Minute Friday Edition
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My Introduction
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🎓 Why you should be pair programming more often.
Technical, soft skills, and career growth benefits are abundant when you pair effectively. Do it more!
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🎓 LEAKED: The Underground Shortcut to Becoming a Senior Engineer Without Years of Hard Work!
1,000X your path and leave your peers in the dust!
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🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.
Welcome! Trying something new again this week by sticking with a single topic. I’m hoping this makes it easier for me to write, since I prefer to go…
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🎓 What `MVP` actually means; Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling
What `MVP` Actually Means I was having a conversation with one of my favorite managers in recent years, Brandon, at my last full-time job. We were…
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🎓 Making (reasonably) good decisions quickly; Using a third Entity instead of a Join Table
🤔 How to make (reasonably) good decisions quickly. Part of a senior engineer’s responsibility is creating clear direction for their projects and their…
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🎓 Get more productivity, fewer distractions from Slack; Reduce tech debt by automating dependency updates
How to make Slack and automation work for YOU, not the other way around.
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🎓 Work on projects you aspire towards; Design Pattern of the Day: Adapter
Grow faster than you would only working on what you're given; how the Adapter pattern creates cleaner code that's faster to implement.
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