How to Manage Workplace BlockersThere are 2 things even the most opinionated software engineers can agree on:Naming is hard.Being blocked sucksBut you need to deal with both of those—Every. Single. Day. Today, we’ll talk about #2, how to overcome it, and how not to be like the skel...
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Jordan Cutler
Top 7 Software Development Workflow Tips I Wish I Knew EarlierYour time matters.1 hour of efficiency gain per day saves you 1 month per year.I’ll prove it to you:1 hour per day x 5 days per week x 52 weeks = 260 hours saved per year260 hours / 8 hours per day = 32.5 work days per year.That’s 1 month you could b...
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Jordan Cutler
How to be The Mentor You Wish You HadIt’s worth repeating. Mentorship is one of the biggest opportunities for growth, both as a mentor and a mentee (the one being mentored).As a mentor, you have a lot of power and responsibility.You can be the difference between…Your mentee getting prom...
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Jordan Cutler
A Guide to Public Speaking For Software Engineers“Your technical skills are where they need to be, but you need to improve your communication.” - Your manager. This is one of the hardest pieces of feedback to hear as a software engineer. Why? Because you probably thought as a software engineer you ...
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Jordan Cutler
The Most Important Concept Every Developer Should KnowWhen you discuss your promotion with your manager, how do you bring it up? What about when you tell a story in an interview? Or give feedback to a coworker?In each of these situations, our intuition often lies.Our intuition tells us things like:If I ...
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Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 177: Blockchain, jQuery and a Prompt PlaygroundInside last week’s Dev Digest 177 .
😫 Do AI tools slow down developers by 20%?
📝 The State of DevSecOps
⚠️ 2.3M Chrome and Edge browsers infected by malicious extensions
🤔 Is it still worth using jQuery?
🪦 10 dead influential programming languages
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Eli McGarvie
15 Newsletters Developers Should be ReadingAre you looking for specific and reliable developer tech news and insights, but don’t know how to skim through the internet’s information overload? This is all too common in 2023. There’s too much buzz: Twitter accounts (now X accounts) posting endle...
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Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 197: Dunning–Kruger Steroids, State of Cloud Security, Puppies > BeerInside last week’s Dev Digest 197 .
💪 LLMs are steroids for Dunning-Kruger
☁️ The state of cloud security
🟨 JavaScript for Django developers
🔀 Redirects hurt your page rank
🤔 Is your node setup vulnerable?
💿 Meta data on audio CDs
🐶 OSS: More puppie...