ericjohannsen

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by ericjohannsen 2y ago
Gruntwork ( https://gruntwork.io ) | Golang Engineer - Open Source | Worldwide Remote | Contract Gruntwork is hiring a senior Golang engineer to focus specifically on Open Source projects, primarily OpenTofu but also Terragrunt an
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
We moved away from Google workspace because we were acquired (miss you, Google!), but I'll add for the benefit of those in the MSO ecosystem that Teams can also caption recordings.
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
My advice: Understand all the tools. Apply the ones called for in any given situation. I agree that you want to keep your pizza-sized team focused on fast iterations and on shipping ideas to see what works. There's a huge transition in
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
It makes the information discoverable to people who weren't there that day, to people who will be hired in the future, and to LLMs you may want to train to make all relevant information in the company discoverable. Having said that, so
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
Measuring software engineers productivity has been a meme and the butt of jokes for decades. However, I think there are things worth measuring that do help manage success and are not intrusive. For example, giant pull requests or pull reque
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
Yep. Chasing shiny new tech can cause a company to focus on learning the tech with all its early stage issues rather than focus on solving the problems the business faces. Some new tech fades away. Some is here to stay. SQL was the shiny th
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
Agreed. Sometimes the project is small enough and the debt large enough that a rewrite is in order. However, a project of any size and complexity only reaches tech bankruptcy when the advice given in the book isn't followed; when tech
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by ericjohannsen 3y ago
The blame game has no place in a successful company. As CTO, I lead by example by taking responsibility for my own failures and failures of my team. The sooner the real causes are understood, the sooner a problem can be fixed. I highly reco