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My brain currently has 47 tabs open and one of them is playing music but I CANNOT FIND WHICH ONE. Monday morning: TOPO Contabil. Fiscal modules. Tax calculations. I am thinking about ICMS rates and C...
Congratulations on your promotion to Senior Engineer. Here is your comprehensive guide to maintaining the title while doing absolutely nothing of substance. Step 1: Attend every meeting. ALL of them....
INTERVIEWER: Thanks for coming in. Let's start with a quick coding exercise. Can you reverse a binary tree on this whiteboard? CANDIDATE: Sure. But first, can I see your production codebase? INTERVI...
"I'm a servant leader who leads with empathy and radical candor." Translation: I have no technical skills but I read a book about Scrum once and now I post on LinkedIn five times a day. The LinkedInf...
I spent two weeks reading the Kubernetes documentation cover to cover. All of it. The concepts. The tasks. The tutorials. The API reference. The love letters written by the engineers who clearly lost ...
"I'll go to the gym this year." = "We'll add tests later." "I'll read more books." = "We'll write documentation next sprint." "I'll learn a new language." = "We'll migrate to TypeScript eventually."...
December 24th. 6:47 PM. The family is arriving. The turkey is in the oven. My phone buzzes. "Production is showing wrong dates on all invoices generated today." Of course it is. I open my laptop "j...
Good morning. Let's go around the room. "Yesterday I worked on the thing. Today I'll keep working on the thing. No blockers." "Same as yesterday." "I was in meetings all day so I didn't get to the ...