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I'm trying to process some conflict I've experienced, both in jobs and in my personal life. One synthesis I'm converging on is the idea that there are "story-based" people, and "fa…

A book I think is crucial is Creativity, Inc. (the Pixar book). The most important piece of its perspective, I think, is the idea that managers can screw things up in a bajillion w…

I really liked this -- it's so true about my road to programming (pseudo-) expertise. Almost everything I've been paid to do, I first did on a hobby level, just messing around with…

[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years] My suggestion is to try using the contact form again. Sorry that isn't more helpful.

[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years] The "what do we do after Scratch" question is tricky! There's no super clear answer (and a big market opportunity!) It is important for p…

What is "Three"?

Pretty sweet. Eventually DOOM crashed but man what that fun. Bravo

Wow, I've never felt so seen by an essay.

I'm a dedicated Evernote user. I add just about everything I generate or want to record to Evernote, in one big "notebook", and then I extensively use tagging to make sure everythi…

I'm a huge skeptic of no-code among my friends and colleagues. But seeing how pretty much everyone else here is also expressing skepticism, let me play devil's advocate. I recogniz…

I largely disagree with this article, but it is informative and decently reasoned. I think the author is haphazard and inconsistent with where they apply their imagination: fantast…

I'm a veteran programmer -- not a 10x genius, but reliable and attentive. My problem is that at my company, a nonprofit, there's a culture of not prioritizing reviewing others' cod…

From my own 4 years' experience, I echo what zenpaul said, and would add: * Understand who your client is, and stop and check in if they change. I once had a manager at a client co…

Thanks, it's very helpful to hear about your experience! Out of interest, is your site up? It would be interesting to take a look. Glad to hear you had a decent experience doing vi…

I've done frontend development with a variety of frameworks and libraries. There are things I like about angular and react, though I find them both fragile and slow to develop and …

From many people I have seen succeed and fail at being quants (in the high frequency trading realm, which is different in many ways than the derivatives analysis world), you don't …

Honestly; Evernote. Or any tagged note taking system. Web development has a near infinity of branching Technologies, languages comic conventions, and domain specific languages. A l…

I'm not ready to call BS on this, but I'm deeply skeptical of the general language they're using. They might have iteratively gotten particular recognition to do what they say, but…

Strong disagree with Svip. Training doesn't make good drivers. Who is going to ensure the trainers are good? Who is going to test that the training is being effective? More restric…

I highly recommend SEVENEVES. It's like NS doing "The Martian" but weirder.

I'm teaching a (non-online) course in a few months, and I figure that as long as I'm preparing it, this is a good chance to try creating an online version. But it's sooo hard to fi…