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🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.
Welcome!
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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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A Snowy Last-Minute Friday Edition
Good afternoon, devs!
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🎓 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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🎓 Increasing Development Speed & Stability With Feature Flags
Make engineering look good by adding more control to your deliverables.
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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!
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Communicating To Stakeholders
How seniors effectively communicate to stakeholders by understanding needs, classifying Power vs. Interest, and tailoring communication appropriately.
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#4: Read ALL The Documentation
Read The 🤬ing Manual! How senior engineers consume documentation to improve their knowledge and productivity.
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🎓 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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🎓 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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🎓 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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