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Funnelling My Way Into 9 Offers From SF's Hottest Tech Startups

An inside look into a set of tactics you might be able to leverage to supercharge your next software engineering job search.

May 10, 2019

The power of JAMstack: How 4 strangers built an interactive live game show app in a short weekend

The short story of how we leveraged JAMstack architecture to win the freeCodeCamp/Netlify JAMstack 2018 Hackathon at GitHub.

November 21, 2018

Learn more by doing less

Why it's compelling for a software engineer to sacrifice some time "doing," producing output for his or her company, in exchange for time spent learning for personal career and skillset development.

February 25, 2018

Your variables are going through an identity crisis

Naming is well-known to be one of the hardest things to do well in computer science. What can we do to do better? Why should we care?

November 19, 2017

There's a human on the other side of your code review

Some tips for the process of code reviewing and how to give code reviews the human touch they deserve.

October 28, 2017