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HCP Vagrant is the hosted registry that makes it easy to pull Vagrant boxes. The Vagrant CLI will remain available.

Thank you for the feedback! I've certainly been misunderstood more than once. I've also misunderstood people who thought they were being perfectly clear. That particular example is…

Mgr: "I need you to plan travel to LA." Dev: "Cool, got it." (Having been that dev, wrong! Don't got it. Which is why, as manager...) Mgr: "I need you to plan travel to LA. For the…

> What I dislike about the original post is that he seems to think his job is to lead and have them follow. Can you help me understand what in the original post came across that wa…

Author here. Yes, if you don't know the domain, you should have a really good reason for overriding the team. Asking questions is a way to gather information that you can then shar…

Location: Iowa, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (\* yes for amazing opportunity) Technologies: C#, TypeScript/JS, Python, Ruby, Azure, relational and document DBs, DevOps,.…

Location: Iowa, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (\* yes for amazing opportunity) Technologies: C#, TypeScript/JS, Python, Ruby, Azure, relational and document DBs, DevOps,.…

SEEKING WORK | Iowa, USA | Remote Hi! I'm Matt. I solve team problems: individual issues, teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, delivery, workflows. Looking for fractional / co…

SEEKING WORK | Iowa, USA | Remote Hi! I'm Matt. Good at solving problems with teams that blend organizational and technical. Looking for fractional / consulting / coaching work hel…

Location: Iowa, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (\* yes for amazing opportunity) Technologies: C#, TypeScript/JS, Python, Ruby, Azure, relational and document DBs, DevOps,.…

I will add a third claim against it: all that black and gold. As an Iowa State grad, there's a certain arrogance that the University of Iowa undergrads give off (grad students and …

‎‎ Location: Cedar Rapids, IA Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: Only for an exceptional opportunity Technologies: C#, Javascript, Python, SQL, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Az…

Updating to add the Onboarding Algorithm post I mentioned above. https://www.cybadger.com/2023/06/04/the-onboarding-algorithm...

A lot of what is in this thread is excellent. I'm actually working on a fairly detailed HOWTO for creating a custom-fit onboarding program (send me an email and I'll send you a dra…

Seconding Manager Tools podcasts. Use their "Map of the Universe". Professional Success -> Professional Skills -> Meetings gets to most of the meeting casts. Having an agenda and s…

Agreed, especially starting with Working Effectively with Legacy Code . One of the hard things about what we're assuming is OP's tech lead role is that they're having to influence …

Hey! I know this is a bit late, but Part 1 of Basecamp's book "Shape Up" might be helpful too. It's not explicitly about specs, which is probably why I didn't think of it before, b…

Are you talking about from the employee's point of view, or the HR process? I'll answer from the employee/team's point of view, because that's more interesting. If you're looking f…

There are a lot of different levels of rigor you can aim for when writing a spec. But at its most simple, a spec simply captures what you want the product to do in enough detail th…

I'm close to your age, male, been married for quite a while, kids. So take what I write with appropriate amounts of salt, because things definitely look different at 41 than 21. I'…

My favorite estimation hack / joke is similar: take your best estimate, double it, and move up to the next higher time units. So "oh, an hour or so" becomes 2 days. A week turns in…

This just in: the Surface Transportation Board is requesting additional data from the Class Is for reasons that sound highly relevant to the original article. https://www.progressi…

I agree 100%, based on my own experience both as having been a kid and being a parent. Like a lot of other folks have already posted, I was also the weird sort of kid that spent ti…