Essential Manager Meetings: Three Month Catch Up
One of the key meetings that I’ve done throughout my career with new hires or folks new to their role, is the “Three Month Catch Up”. This meeting provides ...
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Want to stay technical and give back? Volunteer!
Last spring, on every other Wednesday for two months, I volunteered at Pursuit to conduct technical interviews for engineering fellows.
Update Jekyll and Ruby on macOS
So yeah, I always forget how to update my gems when I need to. I am not familiar with Ruby and only use it to power my blog. Two issues often occur: Gems...
The First 90 Days - Chapter Notes
Leaders are readers and with that in mind, I push myself to read as often as I can. Recently, in preparation for my new management role at Dropbox, I read “T...
How to Remove Duplicates from an Array in JavaScript
A standard interview question that I have encountered multiple times in my engineering journey is the classic “remove duplicates from an array” problem. This...
20 for 20
I do not typically write about my personal life, but a new year calls for new traditions.
Plotting the most referenced Refactorings with Node.js, PDF.js, and Chart.js
Refactoring (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler is one the best programming books I have read. Full stop. I have utilized this book to train and coach developers ...
Essential Meetings to Have With Your People as a Manager
When I first started managing, I had no idea what meetings I was supposed to conduct with my staff to help them grow. In part because I was at a smaller org...
Launch, Stop, and Terminate AWS EC2 Instances with Node.js
When provisioning and decommissioning Amazon servers in the cloud, we can use the console or we can use code. We’re programmers, right? Well let’s follow Dev...
List AWS Subnets with Node.js
In order to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, we need both the AMI to use and the subnet we want to launch the instance into. In this article we will use Node.j...