Five for Friday – August 14, 2020

Not only are we smack in the heat of summer, but for the first time in nearly four years, Seattle will actually look like people live there when 70,000 Taylor Swift fans, combined with 30,000 baseball fans all try to get downtown at once. Should be a blast. Meanwhile, here is some stuff worth sharing….

Test conference season is upon us, and so begins the onslaught of “slides” from  powerpoint / keynote / (google docs presentation app whatever-it’s-called). I have seen hundreds of presentations on a wide variety of subjects over the years and thought I’d share what I know about what a presentation tells you about the presenter. The…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…

I’m excited to experiment with Github Chaos Actions – I came across them last weekend in this article. Yes, I think I will link to yet-another Michael Lopp blog post. This time it’s a post about your mid-year leadership checkin. This post on the dystopian world of software interviews is on the money. This is…

I’ve come to realize that my answers to life and the universe may vary from others. Sometimes I fall in love with my answers, but I’m nearly always quite open to ideas that differ from mine. In fact, I love the conflict in thought because it makes me re-think the original problem. One such example…

Here are a few of my favorite articles I found this week In case you missed it, I wrote something. This article on Maximizing Developer Effectiveness is excellent and full of great ideas. I try not to re-post every Michael Lopp article, but this one, like many others, is worth sharing. Like a lot of…