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During a recent visit to Chicago, I met up with a friend for coffee who asked me a seemingly straightforward question about my business: “Are you hiring juniors?” Despite its simplicity, I found myself hesitating with the response. Reflecting on my own career journey, I understand the immense...
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April 1, 2024
During a recent visit to Chicago, I met up with a friend for coffee who asked me a seemingly straightforward question about my business: “Are you hiring juniors?” Despite its simplicity, I found myself hesitating with the response. Reflecting on my own career journey, I understand the immense
March 25, 2024
“Those developers…what’re you up to?” What we did: Designed and built the splash page for RubyConf 2024 for release next week. Played with kittens. Began redesigning Training Tracker presentation slides. Upgraded to Turbo 8 and learned about some cool features it
March 11, 2024
“No apparent blockers other than the concept of time.” What we did: Work! +1 Traveled to Miami for PartsBase Expo 2024 in support of Training Tracker. Redesigned a comments pill so that people can discover it more easily based on client feedback. Got feedback from an early
February 26, 2024
“That’s how software works, we go into people’s dreams at night.” What we did: Allll of the bug fixes/improvements – made a lot of progress polishing an upcoming release. Allowed users to upload Attachments for specific Trainees within Training Tracker. Allowed users to group a
January 31, 2024
The year ahead offers both opportunity and pitfalls. Augmented reality (AR) is finally set to make real gains, hype around artificial intelligence (AI) will be grounded, and with an election year promising plenty of volatility, there’s no telling how markets and directions could change. That
January 30, 2024
“That shipping forecast is a bop.” What we did: Released a big feature for our client that allows tour coordinators to create quotes with custom occupancy packages. Added logic to confirm leave functionality that only shows the confirmation when a user has made a change to the
January 16, 2024
What we did: Finalized a role description for UX researcher / design strategist. Wrapped up some discovery research: Summarized research to date (not quite a report). Prioritized problems to solve by the level-of-effort we estimated it’d take to solve them. Began sketching and writing
December 18, 2023
“I don’t know why I have the ‘yeehaws’ this morning and I’m sorry dude.” What we did: Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment Wrestling with inline
December 6, 2023
It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one
December 4, 2023
“Here’s the problem with humans…” What we did: Had a 1x1 with a client to check in on progress and talk about resourcing in the new year. Used Ahoy gem to keep track of user events and created tables and graphs to meaningfully showcase those events. Held a planning meeting and
November 20, 2023
“Great minds don’t bamboozle alike” What we did: (Soft-)Launched Madison Ruby 2024 website Attended RubyConf 2023 in San Diego! Guided Jarrod through his first conference and helped him craft a Lightning Talk which he presented Met and talked with a lot of talented early
November 6, 2023
“You know how sometimes you get your bones vibrated?” What we did: Untangled a mess of spaghetti code that handled everything involving the “scope” of a “collection” in a client app (i.e. the search, filtering, pagination, and sorting of a list). Described (and visualized) how users
October 23, 2023
“It’s like /dev/null, but for people.” What we did: Released a new episode of Dev Roundtable on our Youtube! Checked in with our earliest adopter Translated our collaborative sketching from our on-site into slightly-higher fidelity versions Began to wind down the most
October 9, 2023
“What have I told you about listening to inanimate objects?!” What we did: Started to socialize a presentation for a team-wide management retro. Held a two-day on-site with a client in Madison, WI. Prioritized ambitious user stories (epics) for on-site discussion. Reviewed
October 2, 2023
“You can’t scare me, I’m into math.” What we did: Signed an agreement to work with Metis Communications to help get the word out about about our people Represented at Friendly.rb, Your Friendly European Ruby Conference, in Romania Delivered a proposal to a nearly 50 year-old
