How Bottom-Up and Top-Down Management Are DifferentAt my first sales job, we talked about the difference between clerking and sales. A clerk does the things people tell them to: They…Jun 18, 2020Jun 18, 2020
AMA with Kyle Coberly on Denver DevsHello Denver Devs, my name is Kyle Coberly! I’m an educator, a business dork, and an agile product engineer. I’m currently a lead…Jun 16, 2020Jun 16, 2020
How Closures WorkLet me tell you a story about a mug, a shot glass, an almond, and a cashew. Lets say you have a mug with a shot glass in it:Jan 14, 2020Jan 14, 2020
Grades: What are they good for?In 1785, the president of Yale mused that of his graduating seniors, 20 were great (“optimi”), 16 were pretty good (“second optimi”), 12…Jan 8, 2019Jan 8, 2019
The Mythical 10X ProgrammerOver 40 years ago, Fred Books published a book called “The Mythical Man-Month.” It was a collection of essays around the thesis that…Jan 3, 2019A response icon5Jan 3, 2019A response icon5
How to create a toxic work culture in one easy moveLet’s say you were an Evil Manager, and your main goal was create as toxic a culture as possible. You couldn’t be too obvious about it…Jan 1, 2019Jan 1, 2019
Stop Ruining Your HTML WithTake a tour of the popular CSS style guides and several commonsense themes will emerge: Indent your code, don’t ignore semicolons, and…Dec 29, 2018Dec 29, 2018
Rands Leadership AMAThese are the questions I was asked and the answers I gave during my 2018 AMA on the Rands Leadership slack. Thanks to everyone who…Dec 29, 2018Dec 29, 2018
Making an InLet’s say you want to make a list item, copy it an arbitrary number of times, and increment some counter on it. For example:Dec 29, 2018Dec 29, 2018
Using Vim BuffersWant to improve your ability to work with multiple files in Vim? Spending a lot of time searching through directories with Netrw or…Dec 29, 2018Dec 29, 2018