Soft 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...May 31, 2022 · 6 min readcooperbuilt.hashnode.dev
Grasping 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,...Apr 30, 2022 · 2 min readcooperbuilt.hashnode.dev
Get 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...Mar 8, 2022 · 2 min readcooperbuilt.hashnode.dev
Practice, 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...Jan 24, 2022 · 6 min readcooperbuilt.hashnode.dev
Puppeteer, 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...Jan 20, 2022 · 3 min readcooperbuilt.hashnode.dev
