My recent post I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You!) [https://exceptionnotfound.net/i-am-a-9-to-5-developer-and-so-can-you/] is getting WAY more traffic than I expected, and I am both humbled and excited that so many people in our profession seem to feel the same way that I do: namely,
I've been thinking quite a bit about a particular tweet from Safia Abdalla [https://twitter.com/captainsafia]: > A perhaps unpopular opinion (and a little ironic coming from me). You don’t have to write blog posts, contribute to open source, give technical talks, or anything else to be a capable
There's this new guy on our team. He's really smart. Probably smarter than me. Should I be worried about him trying to take my job?
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You may be familiar with the term rubber duck debugging [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging]. This is the idea that in order to help a programmer solve a problem, s/he should explain it to some kind of inanimate object (most commonly a rubber duck), because in