Category: career / work Mar 24 2021 Get better at programming by learning how things work Mar 2 2021 Things your manager might not know Jul 14 2020 When your coworker does great work, tell their manager Jun 30 2020 Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews Feb 18 2020 Questions you can ask about compensation Jun 28 2019 Get your work recognized: write a brag document Oct 6 2018 What's a senior engineer's job? Sep 30 2018 Some possible career goals Mar 28 2018 Open source sabbatical = awesome Feb 10 2018 Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback Dec 2 2017 Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools Sep 3 2017 Telling people what you're working on Mar 17 2017 Writing down my career Feb 16 2017 Hiring & opportunity Jan 24 2017 Choosing the "best software" Sep 19 2016 ★ Getting things done Sep 12 2016 How I got a CS degree without learning what a system call is Aug 16 2016 Release it, then build it Aug 16 2016 ★ How do you decide what to work on? May 29 2016 Three ways to solve hard programming problems Jan 6 2016 Talking about stock options = awesome Dec 30 2015 ★ Things you should know about stock options before negotiating an offer Mar 6 2015 1:1 topic ideas Feb 17 2015 ★ How I learned to program in 10 years Apr 27 2014 Stopping to think Apr 8 2014 Becoming a better developer (it's not just writing more programs) Feb 3 2014 Sounding confident in interviews Jan 16 2014 What my technical interviews have looked like Dec 30 2013 ★ Questions I'm asking in interviews