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May 29, 2025

Four Things I've Changed My Mind About in Engineering

I think a mark of a great engineer is being willing to change one’s mind when presented with new information. Here are four technological things I’ve changed my mind about.

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May 14, 2025

How I Approach Feature Requests

Receiving feature requests is part of running a software team. Here’s how I handle them.

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April 29, 2025

Don't Guess

This is a response to “Don’t Guess” from the excellent “The Best Programmers I Know” by Matthias Endler. My goal is to crystallize my understanding of this trait.

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April 7, 2025

Your Software Is Confusing

If something in your software is confusing to a customer, it is confusing.

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March 26, 2025

Why I'm "All In" on TypeScript

I’ve added TypeScript to several projects I’ve worked on. In this post, I’d like to discuss why I think TypeScript is essential and document my expectations around it.

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March 4, 2025

"Hit It Twice" Customer Service

I recently learned a practice for customer communication that I’d like to document. It’s called “Hit It Twice.”

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February 3, 2025

How I Organize a Meetup

I’ve been organizing Meetups for a decade, starting with Vim Chicago and Chicago Elixir, and now running Maine JS from Portland, Maine. In honor of our most recent Meetup, here’s a list of my favorite organizer tips.

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December 31, 2024

My Annual Review 2024

Here’s my annual review covering 2024.

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September 3, 2024

Comfort With Discomfort

Today I’d like to talk about a quality that’s essential to success as a computer programmer. Let’s call it “comfort with discomfort.”

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July 26, 2024

The Secret to Being a 10x Engineer

Our industry has a concept of “10x engineers”, individual contributors who have the impact of ten colleagues. How can you become one? I’ll try to answer that in this post.

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