Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
What Is a Staff Engineer?
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What's next for someone who has been at the Senior Engineer level for several years or more? It used to be that you had to go into peopl...
Friday, September 30, 2022
Remote Hiring and the Paradox of Choice
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Oh, how I love remote work. And oh, boy, I've written a lot about the topic on this blog. We all know the reasons why remote work is am...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Swamped to Sustainable
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I've written a lot about the concept of sustainability on this blog, and it's something I'm constantly thinking about with rega...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Documentation Is a Competitive Advantage
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People often say that one of the reasons Stripe is so successful is that their documentation is world-class. Most companies, open source p...
Monday, June 27, 2022
New People Write the Best Documentation
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Have you ever heard that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it? I've had the experience several times when I've joined a ne...
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Let developers do "off the board" work
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When sprints are well planned and sustainably paced, it's natural to have developers who have finished all of their committed backlog it...
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Penny-wise and Pound-foolish
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What a time to be a software developer! I'm always amazed that even in an industry with high salaries and intense competition for talent...
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