From Code Monkey to Master Engineer: The Art of 10x Productivity
Unleashing the 10x engineer: Master tools, embrace automation, uphold coding standards. It's not about coding more, it's about achieving more with less.
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What do you do to capture all the tribal knowledge in your company?
"Turns out people hate reading dull documents as much as writing them. Who knew? Solution? Trick them into gabbing about work, record it, slap on a transcript. Add a dash of AI. Presto! Engaging, searchable 'documentation'. "
My strategy to quickly learn new industries, subjects, and more
Learn my strategy for quickly mapping and learning new subjects, industries, and other unknown. Build simple databases with Excel.
One time I built a Yelp for housing. It failed. Here is what I learned.
I built a Yelp for rentals; it crashed & burned. Why? Big landlords: unflappable. Tenants: silent for fear of retribution. Reality check: housing demand trumps bad reviews.
How I stay motivated to publish despite being a lazy bastard
I briefly break down my process for staying on top of my writing ideas despite begin a lazy bastard. Procrastinate without guilt.
Let's Go Shopping on Github, or 5 Tips to Pick the Right Software
Barbie offers five good pointers to think about when evaluating software projects on github.
How can your organization keep costs under control?
We keep it simple (KISS Principal). A lot of stuff here is a little
counter-intuitive as well.
* Our stack is Docker, Django, Traefik on a SINGLE Linux VM.
* We deploy via CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket)
* We build in a monolith rather than microservices
* We use a database as a queue