Interviews are weird. You likely do them in spurts every few years and if you’re not practicing in between these high stakes periods, you don’t really know what to expect. They can be stressful, completely orthogonal to the type of work you do on a daily basis and leave you…
A member of your team has just left for another opportunity 😢. While you and your team are excited for them, you also realize you have a backlog of user stories with looming deadlines. It’s time to hire.
You believe you need a warm body capable of producing code to…
After transitioning to a career in tech at 30 and with no prior programming experience, I understand how difficult making that switch can be and remember the fears and anxiety I had during that time. …
So you want to become a senior/staff/mid-level developer eh? Well, hopefully not all of them at the same time, but wherever you are in your career, you’re likely wondering what it will take to get to the next step. Let many authors tell it and you’ll believe that some finite…
As a software engineer, few events are more daunting than your first day in a new role where you are introduced to a massive codebase. If you’re lucky enough to have a formal on-boarding experience, then perhaps a more senior member has walked you through the codebase, tech debt and…
I was teaching at a coding bootcamp a few years ago. The class was not going well and one student in particular was derailing our lesson. After class this student approached me.
“You know, this stuff is hard. You’re teaching way too fast for me to keep up. This stuff…
Charles, a ReactJS developer, sits down and wipes the breakfast burrito crumbs from his scraggly beard.
“Ahh, time to create another component!” he exclaims, while cracking his fingers and then resting them ever so gently on his mechanical keyboard.
The codebase he’s adding to has a number of other components…
If you are using testing-library as a test framework for your ReactJS project, you are likely familiar with the render method used to, well, render components. But how many of your components are easily renderable with no additional bootstrapping?
It’s likely your project either has a theme, some context providers…
Do you really need a bootcamp to become a software engineer? While it may seem there are only two viable paths into the world of software — bootcamp or college degree — there is another way.
Full disclosure — I did complete a bootcamp style program nearly 7 years ago…
Whether you’re using TDD or whatever it’s called when you write tests after your code (DDT?), there is no silver bullet for creating good unit tests. What separates bad unit tests from useful ones you might ask? …
