Stakeholders are silly people. Everything feels important and urgent. Stack ranking helps

Too many engineers cry chestertons fence and never check why the code exists

Too many engineers cry chestertons fence and never check why the code exists

Advancing big goals while you stay on top of operational day-to-day fires _is the job_. This is hard. Here are a few tips I've found helpful.

Advancing big goals while you stay on top of operational day-to-day fires _is the job_. This is hard. Here are a few tips I've found helpful.

Explore the importance of functionality over elegance in Swizec's latest piece. Learn from his experience of tripling an engineering team's size within a year.

Explore the importance of functionality over elegance in Swizec's latest piece. Learn from his experience of tripling an engineering team's size within a year.

Performance oscillates around your mean. Your average is what matters.

Performance oscillates around your mean. Your average is what matters.

More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your app

More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your app

Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are rewarded.

Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are rewarded.

Regimes come and go but the people stay. Observations from living through a socialism->capitalism transition

Regimes come and go but the people stay. Observations from living through a socialism->capitalism transition

When you see a `useEffect` that updates a `useState` and returns a value, you might be looking for a `useSyncExternalStore`. This is my current vendetta.

When you see a `useEffect` that updates a `useState` and returns a value, you might be looking for a `useSyncExternalStore`. This is my current vendetta.

Deep thinking is the super power of wit

Deep thinking is the super power of wit

Beyond income there's 2 reasons to take any specific job: Invest in yourself or invest in the company. Both is best.

Beyond income there's 2 reasons to take any specific job: Invest in yourself or invest in the company. Both is best.

So this talk is my attempt to step back and write down some of the things I've learned. Hope you find something to apply in your team.

Great for learning those little tricks of the trade you forgot you even learned

In a fast-growing company software engineering feels like spinning plates. Nothing ever stays fixed.

Let's be honest: Half the APIs you write are for a specific purpose in a specific component on a specific page. Re-usable in theory but you've never tried. That's where Server Components come in ... but what if your server isn't JavaScript?

Hidden lessons painfully learned over the years.

Your goal is not to write a book, it's to change how your reader thinks

Here's a few alerts I've found unreasonably effective over time

The base expectation for engineers is that you don't just build whatever you're asked.

Wanted to share a few more thoughts on my mentoring philosophy and answer questions that readers asked