As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
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Every year Microsoft has held the Build conference for developers. I've been lucky enough to go a few times, and I was hoping to get the chance to attend again. With the pandemic, the entire event went virtual, and was held across 48 continuous hours. I was slightly disappointed as a few sessions I wanted […]
2020-05-23
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Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
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We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2020-05-21
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Much of what we do to improve ourselves is an investment in our work. The same thing could be said about businesses. Today a little advice about making an investment.
2020-05-20
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2020-05-19
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2020-05-18
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I’m constantly hearing stories about terrible managers, and, of course, I’ve experienced quite a few myself. In fact, I can’t come up with many nice things to say about most managers when I look back over my career. (Luckily, my manager at Redgate is wonderful!) Early in my tech career, I was working at a […]
2020-05-16
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What will you do about vacation during the pandemic? Steve gives his thoughts.
2020-05-15
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