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Whenever you do something, you need to keep the core goal or idea in mind. The core is your North Star, especially when times are tough. This post is about the core of Software Engineering Management, a topic near and dear to my heart. For example, suppose you are learning a language in school. The…
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This post on my “core” theory is deprecated. I believe I have a better and more modern way to frame it. I’ll write it up when I have time, but I’m going to leave this here. I know people want to seem perfect online, but it’s BS. I rather show the evolution of my ideas.…
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It’s funny how certain personality traits will emerge early in life and stay with you, in one form or another, for a very long time! In my case, the trait at hand is reading too much into things. I’m no Derrida, and I’ve learned to modulate this inclination over time, but really, I like to…
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I’m not a musician, but I’ve always liked the idea of the étude. Per Wikipedia, “an étude is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill.” As a manager in my current role, I don’t write code for work anymore, and TBH, a lot of the code that…
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For some reason, this photo, which was shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, doesn’t look right when I export it as a JPG from Lightroom Classic (desktop) and view it again on an iPhone. It looks more flat and muted, and generally not as nice. In fact, if you view this image outside of…
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On 4 June 2018, I started self-hosting my blog using Google Cloud Platform’s Compute Engine. On 23 June 2024, I have just shut down and deleted that Compute Engine instance. The end of an era! The blog is now hosted on wordpress.com. When I decided to self-host back in 2018, I thought I would spend…
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This is great (although, to be honest, I can see how this might only appeal to a few hundred or perhaps a thousand people, in the same way that William Blake is an intriguing person/artist/visionary who has some work that is just too esoteric for most). A landscape film is a wonderful idea, as it…
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Setting up a new incarnation of a WordPress blog. Let’s see how it goes this time around.