🎓 Increasing Development Speed & Stability With Feature Flags

Make engineering look good by adding more control to your deliverables.

Nov 4, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

May 2024

🎓 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.

May 2, 2024 • 

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!

Apr 4, 2024 • 

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!

Apr 1, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

March 2024

🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.

Welcome!

Mar 28, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

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🎓 What `MVP` actually means; Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling

What `MVP` Actually Means

Mar 21, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

🎓 Making (reasonably) good decisions quickly; Using a third Entity instead of a Join Table

🤔 How to make (reasonably) good decisions quickly.

Mar 14, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

🎓 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.

Mar 7, 2024 • 

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.

Feb 29, 2024 • 

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.

Feb 14, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

Communicating To Stakeholders

How seniors effectively communicate to stakeholders by understanding needs, classifying Power vs. Interest, and tailoring communication appropriately.

Feb 8, 2024 • 

Aken Roberts

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January 2024