> TL;DR - Sometimes I get an impression that there are people who got "promoted" to Senior Developer even before releasing anything to production ... Clearly the length of tenure is not the key determinant here, but neither should be the 100% memorizing of given framework's...
Since today, I'd like to make some sort of a change in blog posts published here. New ones are supposed to be shorter (max 400 words), more focused on a single thought, even if it means not covering my full opinion on a given topic. You can also...
> "Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum." (eng. To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical.) Seneca Now & then I re-visit my own idea / statement / opinion to find out that I totally disagree with it today. Actually I don&...
This blog post has been inspired by the following article: Where the hell are all the great senioer software developers and hands-on engineering directors [https://medium.com/@obie/where-the-hell-are-all-the-great-senior-software-developers-and-hands-on-engineering-directors-b88b0d15fbdf] . "You talk like a developer" Let's start with a short story: New dev comes to me as...
Our industry is batshit crazy. No point in denying. What we do (services based on pieces of software) is so multi-dimensional that sometimes it's damn hard to find a common denominator between two: people, projects, products, architectures, methods. Obviously, it's got its pros (let's...
Unfortunately, some still think that they can treat software engineering as any other type of work. Maybe it’s convenient, but it just doesn’t work. Here’s are two quotes I’ve overheard during just last week … : "Scrum is awesome, it works really well if applied properly. And...
