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The One Person Every Manager Forgets to Manage
The One Person Every Manager Forgets to Manage
This week, my friend Gilad Naor is contributing a guest post. Gilad is a seasoned Engineering Manager (Ex-Meta…
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You Know Too Much—and It’s Hurting You
You Know Too Much—and It’s Hurting You
You’re Not Surrounded by Fools—It’s This An engineer on your team just gave you a blank stare. It’s not because they’re…
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I used to fear silence—now I rely on it
I used to fear silence—now I rely on it
Why I stopped filling every awkward pause As a manager, I thought my job was to fill every awkward pause in group…
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The secret to promotions: 3 little words
The secret to promotions: 3 little words
Engineers want to grow. They want to do meaningful work, get recognized, and advance their careers.
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When Frustration Is a Gift in Disguise
When Frustration Is a Gift in Disguise
Most of us run away from frustration at work. One might even say that we get frustrated with it! But what if I told you…
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Clarity First. Growth Second.
Clarity First. Growth Second.
What if the growth you think you're supposed to be chasing isn’t leading you where you think it is? We take growth in…
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When Life Falls Apart, You Don’t Have To
When Life Falls Apart, You Don’t Have To
If this year has challenged your stability — and if you are a software engineer or leader in 2025 then that means YOU —…
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Introducing The Complete Engineer Newsletter!
Introducing The Complete Engineer Newsletter!
Another newsletter from a recovering Engineering Manager..
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Attention Managers: Your Empathy and Feedback Are Like Oxygen
Attention Managers: Your Empathy and Feedback Are Like Oxygen
In my early days of parenting, I learned a parenting concept that parental attention is like oxygen for children. A…
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What the birds, the leaf blowers, and the plane reminded me about life
What the birds, the leaf blowers, and the plane reminded me about life
Over the course of the past few months, as I’ve been forced to work from home due to the coronavirus, I’ve added a walk…
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When I'm gardening, I'll typically have a pot with seedlings of various sizes and what I look for when deciding which ones will be transplanted is…
When I'm gardening, I'll typically have a pot with seedlings of various sizes and what I look for when deciding which ones will be transplanted is…
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This week was crazy and with ADHD learning something complex is hard to do especially when you have 3 teens. I finally found some time to set in and…
This week was crazy and with ADHD learning something complex is hard to do especially when you have 3 teens. I finally found some time to set in and…
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Spoke at Open Source Nest today! Thanks for having me! I enjoyed it. I talked a bit about Dance Chives, Minesweeper, BuiltinPublic, and my Wordle…
Spoke at Open Source Nest today! Thanks for having me! I enjoyed it. I talked a bit about Dance Chives, Minesweeper, BuiltinPublic, and my Wordle…
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The December issue of The Coaches’ Chronicle lands in inboxes on December 1st. This is one of our most insight-rich issues yet, featuring a…
The December issue of The Coaches’ Chronicle lands in inboxes on December 1st. This is one of our most insight-rich issues yet, featuring a…
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Thanks to Dance Chives, I am getting a crash course in: --Dockerization with Neo4j, Postgres, and Prisma --Debugging the flow of Dockerization with…
Thanks to Dance Chives, I am getting a crash course in: --Dockerization with Neo4j, Postgres, and Prisma --Debugging the flow of Dockerization with…
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Thank you god/the universe/life for all of my challenges! They are the best thing ever! And no, this is not sarcastic... My anger! My failures! My…
Thank you god/the universe/life for all of my challenges! They are the best thing ever! And no, this is not sarcastic... My anger! My failures! My…
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𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗩𝗣 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽. We are obsessed with the "Minimum Viable Product." We celebrate shipping. We celebrate the first login. We…
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗩𝗣 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽. We are obsessed with the "Minimum Viable Product." We celebrate shipping. We celebrate the first login. We…
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Bloom wherever you're planted. 🌻 My ancestors came from Germany to Galveston in 1900, thankfully arriving before the Great Storm destroyed the…
Bloom wherever you're planted. 🌻 My ancestors came from Germany to Galveston in 1900, thankfully arriving before the Great Storm destroyed the…
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Jason Gorman
A business built on "vibed" code has no moat to speak of. If it's true that "A.I." enables *anybody* to build software just by describing it (it's not, but let's run with it for now), then *anyone* can reproduce your software easily. Real competitive advantage would then be found not in what these models can generate, but in what they *can't*.
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Natalie MacLees
Missing form labels, empty buttons, links that go nowhere... Let's stop calling this "accessibility debt." This is just incomplete development. The real issue isn't that accessible code costs more to retrofit. It's that we're calling basic HTML requirements "extra work." A button without text? That's not accessibility debt - that's unfinished code. A form input without a label? That's not technical debt - that's skipping steps. A link that doesn't go anywhere? That's not an edge case - that's broken. These things should be in your Definition of Done already. Not because of WCAG, but because they're fundamental to how HTML works. When we frame basic semantic markup as "accessibility work," we make it sound optional. It's not. It's just good development. Start there. Get the fundamentals right. The rest gets easier once your team stops thinking of working buttons and labeled forms as "nice to have." #WebDevelopment #Accessibility #TechDebt
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