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Weaving in ends: a life philosophy

January 05, 20193 min read

I was on the bus earlier this week and I was working on a crochet Christmas stocking. As I was crocheting and moving the ends from my color work out of the way, I had a thought about how your approach to weaving in ends says a lot of your life philosophy.

Explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience

November 15, 201812 min read

If you can clearly explain technical concepts, your audience will be more likely to accept your ideas, invest in your ideas, and ultimately adopt your ideas.

Empowering Early Career Devs: Strategies for your team

November 14, 20187 min read

This is the third in a three part series on empowering early career devs. In this post, I’ll give you strategies to build a process tailored to your team to empower the early career developers on your team.

Empowering Early Career Devs: My current team process

November 13, 20188 min read

This is the second in a three part series on empowering early career devs. In this post, I’ll cover the processes we’ve been putting in place on my current team to facilitate opportunities for my early career team members to be empowered.

Empowering Early Career Devs: Why its important

November 12, 20186 min read

This is the first in a three part series on empowering early career devs. In this post, I’ll cover why its so important for those of us in senior or lead roles to invest in and encourage the early career talent on our teams.

Optimizing SEO for SPAs

September 22, 20186 min read

Single Page Applications (SPAs) are trendy with developers but product owners, account managers, and marketing folks are sometimes hesitant to get on board. Why? SEO.

Design Pattern Dating Profiles: Decorator Pattern

September 16, 20183 min read

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Remove junior from your vocabulary

September 03, 20183 min read

I'm giving a talk in November about empowering early-career developers. Not junior developers. I'm trying to remove "junior" from my vocabulary. Why? Let me explain.

Giving kind feedback instead of nice feedback

August 19, 20184 min read

Giving constructive feedback is one of the most challenging things we have to do in our professional lives. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to give better constructive feedback and specifically how to give constructive, kind feedback.

9 conference tips for your inner introvert

August 11, 20186 min read

I recently attended THAT Conference in the Wisconsin Dells and had a wonderful experience. Here is a small list of tips that made my experience more enjoyable as an introvert.