How to get promoted? How to get a salary raise? How to stop writing code and start managing other losers who still write it? How to become a team leader, a boss, a Vice President, a CTO, and a CEO? Is it a matter of luck, or can some tactic…
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: How to get promoted? How to get a salary raise? How to stop writing code and start managing other losers who still write it? How to become a team leader, a boss, a Vice President, a CTO, and a…
Management gurus keep saying everyone must own the business result. BCG wants every company to build an “ownership mindset” at all levels. Each employee must feel responsible for the firm’s outcomes. Patrick Lencioni, in The Five Dysfunctio…
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: Management gurus keep saying everyone must own the business result. BCG wants every company to build an “ownership mindset” at all levels. Each employee must feel responsible for the firm’s ou…
Since the release of Opus 4.7 in April, I don’t write code by hand anymore. I only talk to Claude Code. Not because I’m lazy or don’t like coding, but because he is a better programmer than I. Also faster and much cheaper. However, for most…
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: Since the release of Opus 4.7 in April, I don’t write code by hand anymore. I only talk to Claude Code. Not because I’m lazy or don’t like coding, but because he is a better programmer than I.…
People have been arguing about how to indent code for as long as there’s been code, and nobody has settled it. Java’s Checkstyle aligns continuations under the open paren, ESLint and Prettier each invent their own rules, Go’s gofmt uses tab…
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: People have been arguing about how to indent code for as long as there’s been code, and nobody has settled it. Java’s Checkstyle aligns continuations under the open paren, ESLint and Prettier
Someone submitted an issue to one of our open GitHub repositories a week ago, suggesting a new feature. We didn’t respond, since we didn’t notice it. Today, someone else submitted an implementation of the feature in a pull request. I reject…
When I was five years old, I inherited the shoes of my older brother. Not because our family was poor, but because the shoes were good. My grandma told me that when she was a fiancée her dowry consisted of a few skirts. Not because she was
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: When I was five years old, I inherited the shoes of my older brother. Not because our family was poor, but because the shoes were good. My grandma told me that when she was a fiancée her dowry…
Please, cite this blog post via BibTeX as such: It seems to be popular to design websites as Single Page Applications (SPA). Instead of showing a new HTML page on every click, an SPA sends a lightweight skeleton with JavaScript. The JS make…