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Betting on Unknown Unknowns(alexw.substack.com)
3 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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Who's Hiring Junior Engineers – Edition #1(newsletter.beginner.dev)
2 points by dglass 4y ago|1 comments
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by dglass 4y ago
Shameless plug, but I’ve written a book about what differentiates a good programmers from great ones. [0] In my opinion the soft-skills far outweigh a person’s technical skills in terms of importance when it comes to identifying whether is
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I Burned Out(newsletter.beginner.dev)
2 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 4y ago
Sounds more like wework.
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Refactor or Rewrite: Things every programmer should consider(newsletter.beginner.dev)
3 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 4y ago
https://newsletter.beginner.dev/ I run a newsletter offering career advice and weekly areas to focus on building soft-skills for developers working towards a promotion to a senior role.
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Iterate to More Complexity(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 4y ago
Languages that don’t have this duplication are able to evolve their tooling, libraries, and ideas just fine. Duplication isn’t required for these things to happen. All it does is fragment the ecosystem.
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by dglass 4y ago
Always cool to see what tools other authors use to write books. I took a different route with my upcoming book[0] on career advice for programmers working towards a promotion to a senior role. I started out writing it in markdown but ended
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Technical Debt Isn't Always a Bad Thing(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 4y ago
Service classes are a common pattern used in monolithic codebases to isolate related logic from the rest of the system. Everything the author described in the article can absolutely be built in a monolithic codebase sharing the same databas
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by dglass 4y ago
Shameless plug, but I'm working on a job board[0] specifically for entry level developer jobs. I'm hoping to open source the job board code as well so it's taking a little longer but I'm close to making the repo public.
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Business Value for Programmers(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase(blog.beginner.dev)
2 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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Reading Unfamiliar Code(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Ask Better Questions as a Programmer(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|1 comments
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Learning from Post-Mortems(newsletter.beginner.dev)
1 points by dglass 4y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! Looks like I missed a couple CSS styles for the dark theme. I’ll make sure to get that fixed.
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by dglass 5y ago
https://blog.beginner.dev/ I've written a book titled Junior to Senior[0] that is soon to be published by Holloway. Now that I'm done with the majority of the writing for the book I'm shifting my focus to my
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Bob Chapek and Bob Iger had a falling out – the rift looms over Disney’s future(cnbc.com)
2 points by dglass 5y ago|1 comments
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by dglass 5y ago
Unfortunately we don't have a definite release date yet. The manuscript is complete so we're about to bring in an editor and get the book ready for publication. Pricing hasn't been finalized but if I had to guess it would be
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by dglass 5y ago
Shameless plug, but I think you should take a look at my book Junior to Senior that is soon to be published by Holloway[0]. Like other commenters have mentioned, the best way for junior devs to sharpen their technical skills is to just pu
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by dglass 5y ago
The whole docker setup just to accept contact form submissions seems like overkill. On my blog I’ve got a form that posts the data to a lambda which sends me an email. The blog is built using Hugo and served from s3 so my setup is completel
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How to piss off other programmers(twitter.com)
5 points by dglass 5y ago|4 comments
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Free Ideas(exponentialbackoff.com)
3 points by dglass 5y ago|0 comments
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On Choosing a Career Path(exponentialbackoff.com)
1 points by dglass 5y ago|0 comments
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by dglass 5y ago
I recently published a blog post[0] about this with an excerpt from my book[1]. I wrote a whole chapter on feeling like an imposter, so here's some thoughts on what you can tell them: - It’s common for software developers to feel overw
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How to Beat Imposter Feelings(exponentialbackoff.com)
3 points by dglass 5y ago|0 comments
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The US may have a new top secret space weapon. What is it?(qz.com)
5 points by dglass 5y ago|1 comments

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