Kevin McLoughlin
@_k_m_a_c_
I tweet about creating things on the Internet, both on your own, and with small teams. Current: http://rbcventures.ca | Past: @500px
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As a new software developer, especially if you’re a bootcamp grad, focus on: - Managing your emotions & accepting feedback, this is your opportunity - Diving deep on what feels easy to you, these are your strengths - Writing posts & shipping paid work, this is your credibility
Tech debt can exist without product debt, but the reverse is never true.
For the record, if you spend >$25k remodelling a kitchen and don't install an induction range, you're doing it wrong.
For the record, if you spend >$25k remodelling a kitchen and don't install a gas range, you're doing it wrong.
Devs, how do you all avoid exclaiming “what a callback()!” in response to great jokes irl? I don’t have the strength.
Another read containing some insights which have been helpful in past hiring processes. nber.org/system/files/w…
Revisiting some reads I’ve found helpful in the past, in preparation for the hiring process for a software engineering role our team is about to open. gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/static/documen…
Some things are easier to do at the beginning. Those same things are easier to do wherever you are in the middle, than dealing with them until the end.
“There are a lot of kind people on this team.” Feels like we’re getting at least one of the big important things right while making goboomerang.com.
That feeling when you’re all leaning in the same direction and the boat goes zZzzzZiiiip! forward is pretty awesome right?
~10 years ago, I say to myself “fuck it, I can probably figure this out”. I was editing a Wordpress theme. Least chill gateway drug ever.
“This is a truly wonderful thing you are doing. And the timing couldn't be better. I can not stress enough what a difference these workshops have made in my own personal experience with this pandemic.” 👆 customer feedback like this is so ♥️😍🥰
You need to build/learn/do a lot less thank you think you do at the beginning. And way more than you imagined by the end.
Many things about creating software products are counter-intuitive.
Aspire to be: 🔹 Excellent at your craft 🔹 Amazing at understand what others are thinking and feeling 🔹 Exceptional at communicating what you’re thinking and feeling
Management is a support role. From what little I know about it from experience and observation, it exists mostly to solve the problems that are preventing the people who solve problems from solving those problems. I.e. It’s overhead.
Managers are routers. Routers don’t do much deep computation.
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