I’ve been an interviewer for about 4 years now.
To be more precise, I regularly hire for tech headcount — Backend, Web, QA, etc. And I’m glad to say that misrepresentation, or lying about one’s credentials and capabilities, doesn’t happen as often (or at least not done to ridiculous extents)…
Just like Revenge is a dish served cold, Humility is a dish best served warm.
Humility, or better known as intellectual humility, leadership humility, and collective humility, in the workplace … is an easily understood concept. But not everyone, especially leaders in the workplace, utilizes it to its fullest…
The QA team is perhaps the best ally that development teams can have.
Don’t hate them for catching your bugs — they are there to help the team and company succeed. Corner cases that are otherwise missed in our application-level unit tests, can sometimes be caught at their level, proactively…
…and why the cloud is important for our application needs
This is a written version of a project I did in 2021. See more on the live talk in Facebook here!
The cloud’s an ecosystem of many essential tools for application development and hosting.
Especially Google Cloud, a cloud…
Failed software product launches. This is something that, we, as consumers of this decade, have become accustomed to. This sore spot grows excruciatingly sore for some of us who doubles up as both developers and gamers, a mix of sympathetic understanding and frustration.
Gone are the days where we could…
After being stuck on one single bug today for many hours, I thought I would write this short piece. Maybe it will help someone out, maybe not. But it will be a reminder to myself to not make the same mistake.
I have a Rails application, logging to STDOUT. It…
In season 2 episode 18 of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”, the following brain teaser was asked:
“There are 12 men on an island. 11 weigh exactly the same amount, but one of them is slightly lighter or heavier. You must figure out which. The island has no escapes, but there is a…
“There are known knowns…There are known unknowns….But there are also unknown unknowns.”
The above phrase was coined by the former US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfield. He ended off the quote by saying “And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the…
I am obsessed with achieving high levels of productivity for myself.
As a working adult on a full-time job, I commit myself to work on office hours for the weekdays. Sometimes I pull longer hours if there is a need. Here, I feel truly productive.
However, this obsession with productivity…
