#careers (94 links)
- I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
We've deliberately chosen not to take on staff. We could have grown at many points along the way but haven't wanted to. Instead we've stayed small, focused and…
- A career ending mistake — Bitfield Consulting bitfieldconsulting.com
I want to talk about another kind of career ending mistake, one that affects more than just the unlucky few. Indeed, it's a mistake we're probably all making right now. And that's not planning the end of our careers.
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
- Being Glue — No Idea Blog noidea.dog
Your job title says "software engineer", but you seem to spend most of your time in meetings. You'd like to have time to code, but nobody else is onboarding the junior engineers, updating the roadmap, talking to the users, noticing the things that got dropped, asking questions on design documents, and making sure that everyone's going roughly in the same direction. If you stop doing those things, the team won't be as successful. But now someone's suggesting that you might be happier in a less technical role. If this describes you, congratulations: you're the glue.
- 5 years on the road tomcritchlow.com
I’ve been independent 5 years today. Exactly one year ago I posted 4 years on the road . After an incredibly busy summer, my retained revenue had just dried up…
- Consulting · Jacques Mattheij jacquesmattheij.com
- Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
I found my first jobs on UpWork, where Robotics is quite niche field. Being a niche field there are not many jobs available (I’d estimate there are 2-3 a month…
Category: Free Agent Developers Recently, I was doing something that occupies a surprising amount of my time these days: using LinkedIn for lead gen. This…
- Staff Augmentation is as Staff Augmentation Does daedtech.com
Category: The Life of a Programmer I’m in the process of drafting a post entitled “What Do You Know That People Would Pay You For?” But what I’ll put here in…
- You Should Change the Reason People Pay You daedtech.com
Category: From Developer to Consultant Quick — what’s the reason people pay you? Don’t ponder. Just freeze the first thing that comes into your mind. It’s…
- On Heroes | Jeffrey Snover's blog jsnover.com
Technology heroes are always difficult subject. As an engineering manager, I remember the first time I participated in a “life boat” drill where you have to…
- Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Lucky me (29, Software Engineer from Berlin, Germany) recently got a new job as a Lead Architect for a startup. Now I’d say I’m not a bad engineer, but I’ve…
- How to fail as a new engineering manager – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog blog.usejournal.com
In 8 easy steps “A barista pouring coffee into a mug that says ugh on it at Bar Nine” by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No,…
- Advice for a new executive | Lara Hogan larahogan.me
Advice for a new executive Originally posted Aug 30, 2018 When I was getting ready to join Kickstarter as VP of Engineering, Chad Dickerson (who was the CEO of…
Category: Free Agent Developers , You Asked For It After a couple of weeks doing Reader Question Monday on a Tuesday, I’m back on track. I’ll briefly…
[ Editor’s note : At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee…
- Your Professional Growth Questionnaire – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Do you know what time of year it is? It’s not performance season. Given I have no clue when you are reading this piece, how do I know it’s not performance…
Random Thoughts and Data on Hiring from Recent Experience 04/04/2018 I just lead up a hiring process at CodePen. We needed a UX designer, so we made a public…
- A Performance Question randsinrepose.com
At some point in your leadership career, you’ll need to care about performance management. My first bit of advice is the hardest: don’t ever let yourself think…
- How to Rands – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Hi, welcome to the team. I’m so glad you are here at $COMPANY. It’s going to take a solid quarter to figure this place out. I understand the importance of first…
- Happy Bear Software | Web Application Development happybearsoftware.com
A developers guide to human networking When you think of networking, you think of “hustlers” throwing business cards at each other at dimly-lit drinks…
I recently had the opportunity to speak at Web Directions Code 2017 over in Melbourne. While there, I was part of a panel with Mark Dalgleish and Glen Maddern…
- Your UX Team Needs a Design Technologist. Here’s Why. blog.prototypr.io
As someone who has led UX teams at tech companies large and small, I’ve found working with design technologists to be highly impactful. However, there’s often…
- whiteink — Tech lead: an introduction whiteink.com
As I start handing over my responsibilities at Hypothesis before I leave at the end of the month, Andrew suggested I try and write about the role of a “tech…
- Sophie Shepherd - Sophie Shepherd is a design manager at GitHub. sophieshepherd.com
June 14, 2017 The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching Since becoming a manager about a year ago, I’ve found that in any given week, I cycle through…
How to do what you love and make good money 2016-12-19 The problem: People with a well-paying job ask my advice because they want to quit to become full-time…
- Ask HN: How much do you make in London? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Please include your company (be it BigCo, startup, finance) / contractor status, level / years of experience and compensation breakdown in GBP. I’ll start:…
- Being A Developer After 40 — Free Code Camp medium.freecodecamp.com
Being A Developer After 40 (This is the talk I have given at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck and at the…
- Why I left GDS samsharpe.net
15 April 2016 In which I explain the many and varied reasons why I decided that my life wouldbe happier outside of the Government Digital Service after 3+ years…
- Patrick McKenzie — "Leveling Up" · Double Your Audience doubleyouraudience.com
(This article is part of the MicroConf 2015 Recap . Want to explore more talks from the event? Go back to the Recap Hub ) Main Concept Ship something! It…
- The Developer's Dystopian Future the-pastry-box-project.net
I used to be really excited about JavaScript. I worked for five years running an open source project that was 95% JavaScript. I still never felt like I had a great handle on the tech stack though, and my understanding of so much of the new JS hotness (ES6, Angular, Ember, Shadow DOM, Module systems, etc) feels woefully lightweight. So many jobs seem to ask for AngularJS knowledge now. I took a few stabs at it, but the frequent BC breaks and plans for 2.0 have almost entirely soured me on the framework. My interest in rich client-side apps has almost entirely reversed, and now I’m more interested in doing good ol’ server rendering with the occasional side of progressive enhancement, just like we did it in 2004.
- What is a Technical Product Manager, Anyway? - MindTheProduct mindtheproduct.com
- Unicorn Jobs | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- front-end-ops smashingmagazine.com
_thenittygritty: Front-End Ops by @SlexAxton http://t.co/MUtey1gK2H
- Coding is priority number five - bitquabit bitquabit.com
Team leads are different. Your job, should you accept it, is to become what I’ve lovingly dubbed Shit Umbrella. Your goal is to find all of the peripheral stuff involved in getting the product out the door—important stuff, such as making sure the delivery schedule for the new servers makes sense for when you want to ship the product that needs them, or taking customer calls at 11 PM on a Sunday because their account quit working and they want to know why they should keep paying you, or figuring out when doing features the sales and support teams want makes financial sense—and then coming back and presenting a focused direction to all the developers so that they can get the features written without worrying about how they actually ship. You switch from doing the building yourself to enabling others to build stuff on your behalf.
I think we’re seeing the emphasis shift from valuing trivia to valuing tools. There’s a new set of baseline skills required in order to be successful as a front-end developer, and developers who don’t meet this baseline are going to start feeling more and more left behind as those who are sharing their knowledge start to assume that certain things go without saying.
- What, exactly, is a Product Manager? | MindTheProduct mindtheproduct.com
- Blogging Innovation » How to Hire and Manage Consultants business-strategy-innovation.com
Useful from the other side i.e. how to be hired as a consultant and not suck.
- Joblighted joblighted.com
A single page jobs aggregator
- Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero al3x.net
Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009 wait-till-i.com
"How some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing" plus some good stuff on YQL.
- Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." Pies, pies, the sky is all pies.
- squawkfox » 6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck squawkfox.com
Useful reminder.