Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
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Master of my domain
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Being a good co-worker is your job now
In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at meetings.
People skills for developers
In the second part of this series on career skills for software engineers, we’ll look at how to deal with that trickiest of species: human beings.
My horrible career
Dev advocate Zack Proser grilled me lightly about my career, and why I haven’t taken any of my own advice. Read the full interview, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
You can do this: surviving day one
It’s day one of your new job as a developer. What should you expect? How should you act? Will you survive “max Q“?
The gentle art of code review
Could we give and receive code reviews with kindness, gentleness, humility, and compassion? Can we make a point without making an enemy? Let’s go line by line.
A career ending mistake
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
Stop wasting time
Being a Time Lord isn't about which planet you're born on, or whether you can regenerate. You don't even need a sonic screwdriver. All you need to do is think effectively, and do the right things, in the right way, at the right time. Here’s how.
How to really learn Go
Learning is hard. How do you plan, study, organise your time, and build the right habits? Master teacher John Arundel gives ten helpful hints for students who want to really learn Go.