ECEvan Cooperincooperbuilt.hashnode.dev·May 31, 2022 · 6 min readSoft Skills of a Senior EngineerThe "senior" title for software engineers comes with some controversies. What makes one engineer "senior", and another "mid". I think the majority of the difference isn't technical, it's in the soft skills. NOTE: This is a compressed version of the e...00
ECEvan Cooperincooperbuilt.hashnode.dev·Apr 30, 2022 · 2 min readGrasping at Sand - Why Frontend Development SucksHave you ever tried to grab a handful of sand? You wrap your hand around it and clamp down. For a split second, you have it. Then it spills out between the spaces. You can grip tighter, but you only accelerate the process. After a few short seconds,...00
ECEvan Cooperincooperbuilt.hashnode.dev·Mar 8, 2022 · 2 min readGet More Done With Habitual Time-BoxingTimeboxing is the process of doing one specific activity over a short, defined period of time. Habitual time-boxing is creating a habit out of this technique to supercharge your productivity. We all struggle to get more done. We all feel scattered a...00
ECEvan Cooperincooperbuilt.hashnode.dev·Jan 24, 2022 · 6 min readPractice, Not PerfectionOverwhelming Complexity My dad builds model ships. I don't mean small plastic ones, I mean four foot tall historical replicas of Spanish Galleons and famous fishing schooners. He crafts each ship plank by plank, rope by rope, until it is finally enca...00
ECEvan Cooperincooperbuilt.hashnode.dev·Jan 20, 2022 · 3 min readPuppeteer, Cron Jobs, and YouThis is a quick guide on running puppeteer scripts (or any node script really) in a cronjob easily. This may not be the best way, but it will get you where you need to go. I recently made a puppeteer script to scrape Grafana dashboards, derive calcu...00
