Category: discussion
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Pressure Good, Stress Bad
There’s a difference between pressure and stress. They often get muddled together, especially in work chats where everyone’s “under pressure” or “stressed out.” But they’re not the same thing and if accept that and accept people handle pressure in different ways, we can recognise the difference and react accordingly. Pressure is even. Stress is focused.…
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Lit Still Feels Like the Future of Frontend
<loud>I am a full stack engineer</loud> I don’t care who hears that, I full stack and I proud. As half of you shrug with a “so what, everyone is full stack” and the other half scoff that I cannot be good at either if I claim to both. As you, dear reader know, I have…
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Coding 2 – back in the habit: Rediscovering Engineering with a Little Help from AI
After a few years of steering teams and scaling people, I’m finding my way back to writing code. I mean I never stopped but now computers can do it for me. Lets go! I’ve spent the last chapter of my career leading engineering teams – hiring, mentoring, planning, firefighting, celebrating. All the while I have…