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🎓 Why Seniors embrace bug bashing and site reliability duties.
Bug fixing might not be glamorous, but it can often be challenging, fulfilling, and a great source of knowledge and experience.
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Aken Roberts
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April 2024

🎓 Why you should be pair programming more often.
Technical, soft skills, and career growth benefits are abundant when you pair effectively. Do it more!
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Aken Roberts
🎓 LEAKED: The Underground Shortcut to Becoming a Senior Engineer Without Years of Hard Work!
1,000X your path and leave your peers in the dust!
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Aken Roberts

March 2024

🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.
Welcome! Trying something new again this week by sticking with a single topic. I’m hoping this makes it easier for me to write, since I prefer to go…
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🎓 What `MVP` actually means; Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling
What `MVP` Actually Means
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🎓 Making (reasonably) good decisions quickly; Using a third Entity instead of a Join Table
🤔 How to make (reasonably) good decisions quickly.
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🎓 Get more productivity, fewer distractions from Slack; Reduce tech debt by automating dependency updates
How to make Slack and automation work for YOU, not the other way around.
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Aken Roberts

February 2024

🎓 Work on projects you aspire towards; Design Pattern of the Day: Adapter
Grow faster than you would only working on what you're given; how the Adapter pattern creates cleaner code that's faster to implement.
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Aken Roberts
A Story of Failure; BASE Tech: Full Text Search Engines
How an engineer who screwed up twice didn't get fired, and why you should use a full-text search engine instead of your database.
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Aken Roberts
Communicating To Stakeholders
How seniors effectively communicate to stakeholders by understanding needs, classifying Power vs. Interest, and tailoring communication appropriately.
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Aken Roberts

January 2024

Preparing for layoffs; The OWASP Top 10; Is it a console, terminal, or...?
🆕 Today I’m trying a new format for the newsletter. A bit more casual, easier to consume, and covering multiple topics in an introductory and guiding…
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Aken Roberts
A Newsletter & Content Shift
A pivot to how BASE content is published. Spoiler alert: we're just getting started!
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Aken Roberts
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