Category: career
Medium Coders, Unite!
Or just be. Human.
Learning from co-leadership
Engineering management: a list of sorts
Effortful Learning
The Staff Engineer’s Path
Things they didn’t teach you
Because you weren’t ready.
"Ready are you? What know you of ready?" - Yoda
You’ll
rarelynever write code from scratchDomain knowledge is more important than your coding skills
Writing good documentation is helpful and important… to a point
Code is secondary.
BusinessMission value comes first!You’ll need to work around incompetence and all manner of human-ness
You’ll work with uncertainty most of the time
Safe to assume all code has bugs
Aesthetics can’t be taughtLet the artists and designers do their thingEstimations will be asked for, even when it’s impossible to give them… learn how
Well-planned, well-run meetings are essential
Coding is not a dream job: nurture your relationships and other interests
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/things-they-didnt-teach-you/
The Evolution of The Data Engineer
Tasty word salad from Airbyte, mildly insightful.
https://airbyte.com/blog/data-engineering-past-present-and-future
Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
Productive Programming
“A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.”