An Ode to Junior
Learning, building trust, and getting stuff done are crucial to progressing your career - especially early on. These are the things I learned on my journey from junior.
Thoughts of KB
Musings from day-to-day Software Engineering
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Finding your side-project motivation
Many engineers like having interesting side projects to show off, but motivation is hard to keep up. Understanding how you're motivated is crucial. Here's some methods I use!
Why you want cross-cutting product teams
Design your team around your product, remove silos and increase productivity with a cross-cutting product team.
Measure twice, cut once
Action without reason is worthless, and worse than inaction. Take the time to stop and measure before committing, or risk wasting more effort with nothing to learn from it.
A first step into EventStorming
A new project dawns, a new domain begins. Somebody whispers 'domain-driven design', and the team forms a circle around them and chants 'event storming'.
Maximising one-to-one effectiveness
One-to-ones are an excellent opportunity for building trust and achieving goals with your team lead - How can you make yours more impactful?
Succeeding with the 3 Musketeers pattern
Not the sword-wielding friends, nor the (4) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's just a useful tooling pattern that I recommend - potentially one of the best to have in your belt.
Strong opinions, loosely held
In your job, you have to make many decisions - or contribute to many. Having a strong opinion (that is loosely held) will make strides. Here's why and how to generate one.
Integration tests are king
Stop writing so many unit tests and join me on the dark side. Focus on integration testing instead of unit testing, and bask in the saved time and superiority.
The cost of refactoring
Most engineers have actively refactored code they're responsible for, and a lot think there's no cost to refactoring - but there is. Let's explore and understand, what is it?