Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Contextualizing the 1-on-1
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It's pretty common for engineering managers to have regularly scheduled 1-on-1 meetings with their engineers. Topics often include thing...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Clean Pull Requests
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Pull requests can be a pain to review, but there are things submitters can do to make them easier to manage. I have some opinions about wha...
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Lunch & Learns
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A lot of companies have a regular practice of "Lunch & Learns"—a series where engineers within the company give a presentation...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Yin and Yang of Technical Personalities
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Categorize this post as "advice to my younger self." As a developer early in my career I would get very annoyed when coworkers and...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Let Unsustainable Things Fail
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I read a post by Max Countryman recently titled Let It Fail ( Hacker News discussion ), where he talks about the importance of failure in ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tech's COVID Hangover
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So many layoffs! I can't open Hacker News or LinkedIn without seeing constant stories about the next tech company to lay off hundreds or...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
The AI Can't Destroy Anything Worth Preserving
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The front page of Hacker News has been flooded lately with articles about ChatGPT , a seemingly magical AI tool that can generate realistic...
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