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Should I be coding as a Staff+ engineer?
Is this even the right question?
Jun 28
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Sidney Shek
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Lessons we should remember from Agile
We have weapons to fight against large org-itis
Jun 1
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Sidney Shek
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May 2025
Notes from Sir Jony Ive's interview with Patrick Collison
Take care in what we do to advance the species
May 10
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Sidney Shek
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April 2025
"Middle-out" system design for effective distributed design
Leverage conceptual and logical models to achieve a distributed yet coherent system design.
Apr 19
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Sidney Shek
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March 2025
Planning for your replacement
The staff+ eng superpower to scaling
Mar 29
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Sidney Shek
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Book Review: Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The Scientific Method as seen in real life!
Mar 8
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Sidney Shek
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February 2025
Event storming for getting up a team up to speed
Team velocity improves when we have a shared understanding of the problem.
Feb 16
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Sidney Shek
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January 2025
How to learn a new domain quickly
Get back into your comfort zone as soon as possible!
Jan 25
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Sidney Shek
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Should I stay or should I go? Part 2
Tips on choosing your next role, and avoiding being sucked in by seductive job ads.
Jan 4
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Sidney Shek
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December 2024
Should I stay or should I go? Part 1
A framework for when to look for a new role
Dec 7, 2024
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Sidney Shek
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November 2024
What software engineers can learn from IPv4 to IPv6 migration
Building a v2 system isn't always worth it.
Nov 16, 2024
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Sidney Shek
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October 2024
Everyone wants to be a platform
We always want what someone else has
Oct 26, 2024
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