Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
I find it hard to believe, but apparently, this topic has never popped up on No Kill Switch until now ... Let's talk about your ability to escalate stuff. Without further ado, it's probably the very first skill that comes to my mind when someone asks me: what's the essential skill...
"There's nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus Disclaimer: this post is relevant to you only if you're a frequent visitor (of No Kill Switch). It's about the future of this blog and nothing else. To keep the long story short: 1. During the last 12 months, I've changed (matured? evolved?...
I'm not a slide-deck person. Yes, sometimes visuals are essential (still - in such cases, I prefer infinite whiteboards like Miro), but nothing beats presenting tech concepts/tools in action. Unfortunately, live-coding/live-demoing is very challenging because of the obvious reasons: * adjustment of the level of detail * getting stuck when...
Disclaimer #1: Typically I publish my book reviews on Goodreads, but quite recently they've totally screwed up the procedure for adding new books, so my request is enqueued w/o reply for over a week now. That's why I decided to post the review here. Disclaimer #2: Nearly all the...
We, human beings, have that incredible ability to exploit, exaggerate and travesty every (originally) valuable idea we encounter. That is not necessarily because of some malice - we tend to focus on meaningless (yet visible) details instead of intentions and the purpose behind (the aforementioned idea). Oh well. One concept...
Since I created this blog (almost eleven years ago), I've been writing about nearly every role related to building software. But there's one I've barely mentioned so far - Technical Writer. It's an oversight I'd like to fix today - let's talk about who they are, what they do, and...
