Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Job Ad Red Flags: “Passion”

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There’s no doubt that people who enjoy a pursuit will generally get better at it than people who don’t. And there’s no doubt that people loo...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Past Needs You

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There was a great article on Hacker News the other day called Maintainers Make the World Go Round which discussed the popular obsession wit...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Opportunistic Programming

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As a developer, I’ve been frustrated at times when I felt that a product owner or manager was forcing me to spend an inordinate amount of ti...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Developer Interviews

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A recent post by Yegor Bugayenko titled Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters highlighted a common misconception about careers in the softw...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Small Diffs and Code Reviews

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I enjoyed reading Dan McKinley’s recent post, Ship Small Diffs , in which he explains some of the benefits that fall out of committing code ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Different Strokes for (Remote) Folks

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There was a recent article on the popular topic of remote work that made the rounds and generated a lot of discussion. I cannot trust ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

If You Can Lean, You Can Clean

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With the inevitable slowdown in new projects that comes around during the holiday season, I was reminded of a saying I heard several years a...
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