Programming
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Impostor Syndrome
→: Impostor SyndromeI’ve rejected a number of posts for today, because I worry that whatever comes next will be taken in the context of this. Because today is a day where the schedule says, write about women, and I think, I should write something positive. And there is so little positive to say about women in tech.…
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The Myth of the Intersection of Creativity, Energy, and Time
→: The Myth of the Intersection of Creativity, Energy, and TimeThere’s a common myth that makes side projects close to impossible. It’s thinking that side projects can only happen at the intersection of energy, creativity, and time. That’s a pretty high bar. That intersection doesn’t come around all that often. For me, it’s usually about day 3 of a 3 day weekend. The UK has 8 public holiday…
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Bikeshedding
→: BikesheddingOne of my friends sent me a grammatical suggestion on something I had written. I assumed he was right, made the edit, but then that looked wrong too, so I looked it up. Discovered they were both fine, but the way I had it was slightly preferred. Sent him the link, without that explanation, because…
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Software Engineers Aren’t Normal
→: Software Engineers Aren’t NormalTechies often try and do design (I am also guilty of this), and typically they design for themselves. I don’t think this is uncommon – a lot of people think they would be a good product manager based on little or no evidence, for example. However with techies, there are three common areas where they make…
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Passion and the Developer
→: Passion and the DeveloperI go to a startup event, and it’s interesting to hear non-technical people talking about developers like over-priced commodities. L comes to me for advice, she’s contemplating her next move and worrying about whether or not she feels passion for the project. C reads my blog, tells me that she can tell I’m passionate about writing from my writing. I say,…
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Time Blocking
→: Time BlockingThe thing about knowing more about what you’re doing, is that more people want to talk to you about it, and you have less and less time to actually… do it. And so people block their calendars with “Do not Schedule” and “Make Time!” and presumably try to be diligent about actually enforcing this. But…
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I Used To Make Apps
→: I Used To Make AppsIn my copious amounts of spare time, I’m been playing with iOS lately (some actual coding posts coming soon, I hope). It’s fun, how quickly I can pull together a framework for an app. The satisfaction of something appearing, that didn’t used to be there. It’s that feeling of making. I miss it. I miss the…
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ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
→: ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise ScaleTalk from Capital One on moving their 2,500 page site to be mobile optimised. My Takeaway They drove mobile traffic up from 4%, to 40% in a year. My main shock here was that anyone was seeing mobile traffic as low as 4% in mid-2013. Given general internet trends, mobile traffic much below 40% is…
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The Care and Feeding of Interns
→: The Care and Feeding of InternsInternships are often billed as a “3 month job interview”, but from the other side they are a 3 month stint in being a people manager, and the first opportunity people have to have a real impact on someone else’s career. This can be in a good way – the internship that makes the intern feel…