@deleteman

I'm a Developer

Aug 22, 2022 · 7 min read · Gather round children, let me tell you a story of the time we had to literally phone the internet to connect to it. It was the year 1997 (yeah), and I was gifted my very first computer. Like any 14-year-old, I was stoked, because even though I had ne...

The Hidden Benefit of Unit Tests — Code Quality Assessment

Aug 2, 2022 · 6 min read · Are you a fan of unit tests? I know I am! It hasn’t been like that always though. I remember I used to hate them back then, but I eventually started realizing that there is more to them than just making my code stable. There is in fact, a hidden bene...

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Cut these 5 Bad Habits and Become a Better Developer

Aug 1, 2022 · 8 min read · We all have our bad habits. Some of them are minor (like programming in JAVA for instance) and some others are really bad, working against us, and preventing us from learning and improving our work. And while we, developers, are very technical people...

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The Ten Commandments of an Engineering Manager

Jul 18, 2022 · 12 min read · You’re the engineering manager (or one of them) for your company — congrats! You’ve made it! But do you realize the responsibility that lies in your hands? You’re not just “the boss” for all those developers whaling away at their keywords like there’...

What’s the Biggest Lie in the IT Industry?

Jul 12, 2022 · 10 min read · While I do think our industry is filled with great people and opportunities, it’s also filled with gatekeeping, inferiority complex, and terrible “influencers”. Some of these folks would say anything either to get some easy traction on their social p...