Photo: Techpoint Indiana taken at a recent VC Speed Dating event. That’s WorkHere cofounder Rick Wehrle and I pitching. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment when you get a chance to pitch a VC. Don’t. Slow down and ask these two questions: What does your fund invest in? Listen. Listen for NOT […]
Getting things done is hard. Getting them done on time is even more difficult. Here are four techniques I use to get things moving at work: Get the pain out early. People love to procrastinate. If you are going to procrastinate, push off the things you know for sure you can get done quickly. Do […]
Sometimes geek humor is the best humor. The computer language wars were over in the late 1950s. Rust vs. C is irrelevant. Python vs. Ruby. Waste of time. Java vs. Whatever. Yawn. TypeScript vs. ECMAscript vs. Coffeescript vs. Ye Olde Javascript… Pointless. We just need to code in trees. Problem solved — and solved in […]
Software is a lot like a building or a bridge: you build to fill a specific need. Once a bridge is built, it is very hard to upgrade or change it. It’s costly and filling the need. Most often, to upgrade your bridge, you build a new bridge and when the new is complete, shut […]
Using print statements and logger calls is no way to debug your code. Sure, print and console.log are great in a pinch, but: Inevitably a bunch of print statements or trivial logger calls will get committed when the developer forgets to remove them. Debugger watchpoints and breakpoint usually don’t leave artifacts in your code. When you […]
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