Archive - Become a Senior Engineer

🎓 Increasing Development Speed & Stability With Feature Flags

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

Nov 4, 2024 •

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 •

April 2024

March 2024

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

Mar 28, 2024 •

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

What `MVP` Actually Means

Mar 21, 2024 •

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

🤔 How to make (reasonably) good decisions quickly.

Mar 14, 2024 •

🎓 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 •

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 •

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 •

Communicating To Stakeholders

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

Feb 8, 2024 •

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.

Jan 24, 2024 •

A Newsletter & Content Shift

A pivot to how BASE content is published. Spoiler alert: we're just getting started!

Jan 23, 2024 •

A Snowy Last-Minute Friday Edition

Good afternoon, devs!

Jan 12, 2024 •

#5: Leave Everything Better Than You Found It

Constant improvement of your surroundings adds up exponentially over time.

Jan 11, 2024 •

My Introduction

From WYSIWYG editors to pizza delivery to six figures 💰 My story of getting started in software development and where it has taken me along the way!

Jan 9, 2024 •

#4: Read ALL The Documentation

Read The 🤬ing Manual! How senior engineers consume documentation to improve their knowledge and productivity.

Jan 4, 2024 •

#3: 15+ Code Editor Superpowers

Use your IDE or code editor to its fullest by utilizing these 15+ features.

Jan 2, 2024 •

December 2023

Join our new subscriber chat!

A private space for us to converse and connect

Dec 28, 2023 •

#2: Should you be in this meeting?

Your time is precious – protect it.

Dec 27, 2023 •

#1: A Senior's Christmas Holiday

As a senior software engineer, how can you ensure your holiday is handled with care so you don’t end up on Santa’s naughty list?

Dec 22, 2023 •

Welcome to your expedited path to Senior Software Engineer!

This is Become a Senior Engineer, an educational and community resource for software engineers looking to level up from mid-level to senior+.

Dec 19, 2023 •

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