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 consider myself a "product person". Counseling, consulting, and other types of mercenary work are cool short-term, but I'm not going to fool myself. In the end, I want to build (organically) something persistent and lasting that will stand out in comparison with the competition and...
Engineers love asynchronous written communication - Slack is so popular for a reason. It lets us decide when we break out of the uninterrupted flow and sync with the rest of the world. Also, everyone knows the ground rules of such communication, e.g.: * don't notify the whole...
Experience makes you think you've gained an unquestionable license to generalizing :) At least that's what is happening regularly in my case. I tend to believe I see patterns I wasn't able to identify years ago. Maybe I'm right, or perhaps it'...
Life is so easy if you follow a method ("Gitflow"!). Or use a framework ( "Spring"!). Or implement a guideline ("Here's how you do functional programming on immutable data structures!"). The more specific, the better - it simplifies the judgment criteria whether you&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
Doomsayers were claiming software developers would soon get replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Other "visionaries" predicted the inevitable rise of the generation of no-code/low-code tools that will make possible the development of various applications in natural language and/or in an entirely visual way - practically turning every...
