Neil on Software
Neil on Software
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My unedited ramblings on random topics that I find fascinating about the software industry.
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Sep 29, 2023
Blizzard and StarCraft 2
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Sep 8, 2023
Entrepreneurialism
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Jul 25, 2023
How to Migrate from a Legacy System
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Jul 6, 2023
Reality
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Jun 20, 2023
Cross Cutting Concerns
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Jun 12, 2023
Documentation
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Jun 9, 2023
Done
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Mar 24, 2023
ChatGPT
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Mar 24, 2023
Happiness
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Dec 9, 2022
Crunch Culture
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Dec 9, 2022
Should I Quit My Current Job Before Getting a New Job?
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Oct 5, 2022
Quiet Quitting
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Aug 5, 2022
Defining “Customer”- Part 2
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Jul 28, 2022
Good Types of Product People
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Jul 23, 2022
Crazy Ideas for a Better Future
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Jul 21, 2022
Defining “Customer”
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Jul 19, 2022
Contracting or Starting a Business
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Jul 8, 2022
Bean Bag Chairs, Ping-Pong Tables, and Skipping Meetings for Massages
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Jun 13, 2022
The Future of Work
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Jun 11, 2022
Creativity
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May 12, 2022
My Tech Stack
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May 4, 2022
Fireside Stories #19: That time Andrew told me I had to cowboy up.
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May 4, 2022
Tech Debt
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Apr 19, 2022
Pay
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Apr 13, 2022
Anxiety
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Mar 28, 2022
Fireside Stories #18: That time I “wasn’t a good fit for the development team.”
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Mar 28, 2022
MVC
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Mar 11, 2022
Fireside Stories #17: That time I humbled an arrogant SVP.
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Mar 11, 2022
MVP
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Mar 3, 2022
Fireside Stories #16: That time I fired a client.
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Mar 3, 2022
Answering r/ExperiencedDevs Questions #2
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Feb 10, 2022
Fireside Stories #15: That time I rage-quit a meeting discussing my proposal for saving a project.
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Feb 10, 2022
Career EDC
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Feb 3, 2022
Fireside Stories #14: That time I got in trouble for critiquing code I did not write.
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Feb 3, 2022
Unionization
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Jan 27, 2022
Fireside Stories #13: That time I was presented UI requirements so bad I was speechless.
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Jan 27, 2022
Opportunity
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Jan 24, 2022
Fireside Stories #12: That time I witnessed a candidate get annihilated in an interview.
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Jan 24, 2022
C.O.D.E. Pledge
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Jan 19, 2022
Fireside Stories #11: That time I turned my antagonists against each other.
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Jan 19, 2022
Software’s Intrinsic Value
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Jan 14, 2022
Fireside Stories #10: That time I lost my cool in the middle of a big meeting in front of the CTO.
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Jan 14, 2022
Reputation
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Dec 17, 2021
Fireside Stories #9: That time I was pretty sure I wrote software for the mob.
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Dec 17, 2021
Attention
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Dec 6, 2021
Fireside Stories #8: That time I won over a hostile sales team.
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Dec 6, 2021
Monoliths and Microservices
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Dec 2, 2021
Fireside Stories #7: That time I built a high-performing team and then management split us up.
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Dec 2, 2021
Learning
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Nov 30, 2021
Fireside Stories #6: That time I realized a rockstar hire didn’t know how write software
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Nov 30, 2021
Managerial Styles
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Nov 17, 2021
Fireside Stories #5: That time I was made a team lead over my mentor
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Nov 17, 2021
The Great Resignation
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Nov 12, 2021
Fireside Stories #4: That time I learned how to write high performance software
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Nov 12, 2021
Answering r/ExperiencedDevs Questions #1 (Bongoscout’s Question)
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Nov 8, 2021
Fireside Stories #3: That time I argued the necessity of a MacBook Pro with a billionaire founder
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Nov 8, 2021
The Joy of Coding
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Oct 26, 2021
Fireside Stories #2: That time I was schooled on how to really find bugs
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Oct 26, 2021
Cynicism
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Oct 24, 2021
Fireside Stories #1: That time I was disrespected by a QA contractor who didn’t know that I ran the whole project
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Oct 24, 2021
Hungarian Connection
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Oct 22, 2021
Anyone Can Code
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Oct 15, 2021
Social Media
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Sep 30, 2021
Accountability
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Sep 30, 2021
Bravery
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Sep 24, 2021
Mental Health Day
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Sep 17, 2021
Critical Thinking
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Sep 16, 2021
Procrastination
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Sep 14, 2021
Erik’s First Day
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Sep 9, 2021
Hiring
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Aug 27, 2021
The Hustler Mindset
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Aug 23, 2021
How a Tech Lead Should Leave a Company
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Aug 20, 2021
Churn
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Aug 19, 2021
How to Take Over a Failing Software Project
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Aug 17, 2021
Thoughts on “The Fatal Flaw of Free Market Capitalism”
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Aug 7, 2021
Should Software Developers Return to the Office?
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Aug 7, 2021
Should You Become a Manager?
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Aug 5, 2021
Building a Software Development Career from a Third-World Country
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Aug 5, 2021
Building Relationships
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Jul 29, 2021
Remote Work’s Effect on American Innovation
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Jul 26, 2021
How to Architect a Software Application
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Jul 22, 2021
Building and Leading a Technical Team
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Jul 14, 2021
Picking Technologies
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Jun 26, 2021
Imposter Syndrome
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May 27, 2021
F-35
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May 25, 2021
Correct by Configuration
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May 24, 2021
Recession Proofing
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May 24, 2021
Retaining Top Performers
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May 19, 2021
Social Anxiety
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May 5, 2021
Flipping a House vs. Building a Home
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May 3, 2021
Professionalism
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Apr 23, 2021
Interviewing the Interviewer
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Apr 23, 2021
Why Agile Is So Popular
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Apr 16, 2021
Frontend Developers
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Apr 12, 2021
Mentors
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Mar 31, 2021
Fear
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Mar 25, 2021
Bugs
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Mar 18, 2021
Security
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Mar 5, 2021
Politics
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Mar 5, 2021
Intuition and Ergonomics
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Feb 9, 2021
Agile
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Feb 9, 2021
Dealing with a Diva Developer
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Feb 2, 2021
Cyberpunk 2077
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Jan 26, 2021
Dave Whipple’s Wisdom
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Jan 20, 2021
Growth Mindsets
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Jan 20, 2021
Volkswagen vs. Tesla
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Jan 11, 2021
Ethics
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Jan 4, 2021
The Architect’s Dilemma
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Dec 15, 2020
ScrumMaster.games
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Dec 14, 2020
Laziness and Incompetence
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Dec 11, 2020
Employee Happiness
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Dec 11, 2020
Breaking Up Facebook
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Dec 8, 2020
Architecture’s Relationship to Business Outcomes
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Nov 30, 2020
PSF: Previsualize, Sleep, Flow
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Nov 12, 2020
Improving Scrum
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Oct 27, 2020
Career Advice
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Oct 21, 2020
Is It Worth Learning to Be a Software Developer in 2020?
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Oct 16, 2020
Haters
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Oct 6, 2020
My Perfect Business
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Oct 2, 2020
CoffeeScript/Battojutsu
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Oct 2, 2020
Brainstorming/Stoicism
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Sep 23, 2020
WiT
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Sep 17, 2020
Planting Seeds
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Sep 15, 2020
Code Consistency
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Sep 10, 2020
Atlanta
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Sep 8, 2020
12 Types
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Aug 21, 2020
Timelines
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Aug 4, 2020
Generation Gaps
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Aug 3, 2020
Capitalism
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Jul 31, 2020
Leadership
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Jul 29, 2020
Management
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Jul 24, 2020
Rewrites
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Jul 17, 2020
Breaks
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Jun 29, 2020
Architecture
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Jun 26, 2020
My Goal
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Jun 24, 2020
Contact Tracing
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Jun 5, 2020
Intentional Design
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Jun 3, 2020
Gaslighting
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Jun 2, 2020
DnI
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Jun 1, 2020
10x
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May 28, 2020
WFH
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May 27, 2020
Remote and Junior
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May 26, 2020
Coding Tests
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May 20, 2020
Organizational Change
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May 19, 2020
Agile’s Future
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May 18, 2020
Arrogance
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May 16, 2020
Quitting
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May 13, 2020
Collaboration
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May 13, 2020
Collective Ownership
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May 13, 2020
Hackathons
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