I Didn't Bring My Son to a Museum to Look at Screens
If your museum's exhibits could be experienced just as well on an iPad at home, you're doing it wrong.
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Observations From Twenty Years of Dev Management
Hire great people, challenge and support them, and then stay the hell out of their way
Notes on Marc Wortman's “Admiral Hyman Rickover”
Marc Wortman's bio is worth reading for fans of Admiral Rickover.
Leadership is Just Three Things
A lot of people seem confused about what leadership is, but it's really very simple.
My Top 0x10 Tips for Hiring Great Developers
Put in the effort, be very selective, and treat all of your candidates even better than you'd like to be treated.
My Take on Development Best Practices
I was asked to contribute to a feature on best practices for software engineering. Here’s the full text I provided, a small excerpt of which was included in the piece.
Amplifying Expertise and Accelerating Learning Through Apprenticeship
Can software development benefit from an apprenticeship model? I think so.
What Does it Mean to be a Dev Team Lead?
My idea of what a dev team lead should do — and not do.
How to add NAT to an existing EC2 instance in an AWS VPC
A quick (and now obsolete) guide to setting up NAT on EC2
How the Relay Got Its Name
A quick note for the curious.