How do you measure the progress of software careers? I don’t mean rhetorically — give it some thought. As a software developer working your way through the workforce, subconsciously optimizing for AMP, how do you evaluate yourself? I can think of some things that probably flash into your head: Salary (AMP notwithstanding). The modifier attached…
A while back, I wrote a post about remote programming jobs and why you ought to go looking for them. I’m probably the poster-person for remote work these days, given that my work is 100% remote, and that my wife and I take full advantage of that to vagabond. Oh, and I love it and…
Happy Friday, everybody. As always, I bring you another DaedTech Digest post where I go on a bit about the vagabond lifestyle, make some picks and link you to some posts I wrote about tech. Last week, I chronicled our move to Phoenix for a month. This week, we have a week of living in…
Today, for reader question Tuesday, let’s consider the idea of the coding dev manager. In my experience, most companies draw a fairly sharp line between individual contributors (they code) and managers (they don’t). But in startups and Enterprise Silicon Valley companies, you’ll have additional rungs of the corporate pyramid where people still write code. Who…
The digital nomad lifestyle continues this week, as does my unbroken streak of digest Fridays. Today, we packed up our existence from San Diego, where we’d lived the last few months, put everything in the car, drove to Phoenix, and unpacked it all. just like that, in the span of a day, we went from…
