December 2025
- Dec 8, 2025TechnologyTech Career Mistakes That Hinder Professional GrowthWorking 70 hours produced roughly what 56 did, which makes long hours the clearest case of confusing effort with impact. The Flash collapse is the other lesson: when Apple dropped support in 2010, developers whose identity was ActionScript specifics struggled while those who understood animation and general programming moved on. The page covers expecting work to speak for itself, brag documents, plateaus, and fixed technical identity.
- Dec 8, 2025TechnologyUnderstanding Junior vs Senior Developer RolesWhat actually separates the two levels. A junior developer completes the assigned task within the given specification; a senior one questions whether the task is the right one and designs for how requirements will change. The article cites the 1968 Sackman study on large programmer productivity gaps while noting its small sample and decades of methodological critique, rather than repeating the 10x claim uncritically.
- Dec 6, 2025TechnologyFuture Tech Skills: Staying Relevant in a Changing IndustryDORA's research, published in Forsgren, Humble and Kim's Accelerate, found elite performers deployed code 973 times more frequently than low performers while holding change failure rates 3 times lower, contradicting the idea that speed and stability trade off. The skills behind both, automation, testing discipline and modularity, outlive any stack. AI assistance follows the same logic: strong fundamentals bring the largest gains, weak ones get paid back in debugging.
- Dec 5, 2025TechnologyInterview Skills for Tech: Beyond Coding ChallengesSchmidt and Hunter's 1998 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin, covering 85 years of selection research, put work sample tests at a validity coefficient of 0.54 and structured behavioral interviews at 0.51, against 0.38 for unstructured ones. Google's own hiring data, published by Laszlo Bock, found its famous brainteasers had essentially zero correlation with job performance, and it dropped them. What is left is learnable: algorithm patterns, STAR stories, scoping.
- Dec 4, 2025TechnologyEssential Skills in Tech: What You Should Focus OnMental models transfer across languages while language-specific knowledge does not, so an expert in Python learns Go in weeks. The half-life of specific tool knowledge is short, but algorithms, system design thinking, written communication and business literacy compound instead. Years of experience predict weakly because quality varies enormously. The page makes the case that the skills labeled soft are the genuinely hard ones.
- Dec 4, 2025TechnologyBuilding a Portfolio: Showcasing Development SkillsWeak projects only drag the impression down, curation itself signals judgment, and a small set is what you can actually discuss in depth during an interview. Deployed demos matter because almost nobody will clone a repository and install dependencies to see whether it runs. The page argues the most underused differentiator is a technical decisions section in the README, explaining the choices and tradeoffs, because that is what generates real interview conversation.
- Dec 2, 2025TechnologyTech Career Tracks: From Entry to LeadershipThey performed poorly in roles they never wanted and often left, which is the concrete reason management is a career change rather than a promotion. Larson names four staff archetypes, the Tech Lead, Architect, Solver and Right Hand, so the senior individual contributor track has real shape. Majors argues the move is a pendulum rather than a one-way door. The page covers levels from junior to distinguished, specialization tradeoffs and lateral moves.
August 2025
- Aug 15, 2025IdeasDevelopers: Showcase Your Portfolio ProjectsForty-seven repositories of tutorial follow-alongs, six versions of a todo app, no README. Against that, three projects: one used daily, one open-source contribution, one blog. This page argues the second portfolio wins and shows the work behind it, from a DECISIONS file recording why Postgres over Mongo to deployed demos with test credentials and a scope small enough to finish.
- Aug 12, 2025IdeasLow-Risk Learning ProjectsThe case against the dramatic career leap. Adam Grant's Originals cites research by Raffiee and Feng finding that entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs were 33 percent less likely to fail than those who quit. The same logic applies to skill building: separate risk into its financial, career, time and reversibility dimensions, then design projects you can exit at any stage. Internal work, private builds, informational interviews and open source all qualify.
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