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Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
Software engineering salaries come from one of 3 budgets. Which budget pays your salary shapes your day-to-day and influences your career trajectory
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The future of software engineering is SRE
When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
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I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
The longest project of my life
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My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
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Interview like an asset, not a beggar
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service. The true question behind every interview is "How can you help us?"
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Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
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Computer science is not software engineering
Wow, college was such a waste of time ... when did you ever invert a binary tree outside of an interview? Honestly I never inverted a binary tree in college either ☹️
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Strange line of Python
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Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
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