Posts tagged with Engineering
The Linguistics of Programming
I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my "favorite language" was. I panicked,…
In Appreciation of IKEA
We made a trip to the local IKEA this past weekend. The furniture store of college dorm rooms, IKEA was a staple of my 20s as I moved between apartments and condos, and evolved living arrangements from roommates to living…
Review: Keep Calm and Code On
Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software professionally, not so much the technical aspects but lessons learned through experience. The subtitle is "A tactical guide for navigating the pitfalls of…
When to Value Non-Technical Work
This presentation resonates: Being Glue It's a pretty long read, but the high-level gist is that software engineers are, more often than not, evaluated primarily on hard technical chops. You know: the typical stuff that you find…
The Arrogance of Adolescence
I recently attended a conference for engineering leaders based in San Francisco. It was a 2-day affair, and along with the usual talks and networking, the organizers smartly set up their venue for roundtables, 1:1s, and other peer-…
When to Code Creatively
This article caught my attention: Being "rockstars": when software was a talents/creatives industry 🎭 The post meanders quite a bit, but the central theme is that the author laments the loss of creativity in software development. Their solution,…
