When someone doesn’t turn on their camera for a video meeting, I always joke, “Are you having a bad hair day?” It usually gets a laugh, followed by an explanation that their camera is on the fritz or they haven’t showered yet.
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I've worked in software development for over 20 years, and most of my career has been in management. I want to share something about the reality of working as a Black man fulfilling leadership roles in tech.
Many diversity initiatives for Black people within tech require that those who seek assistance are either currently enrolled in a University or under 18 and not currently in tech.
We need to address how these requirements reinforce systemic racism
We created a spreadsheet of Black-owned food and drink businesses to consider supporting right now and in the future. Acting with your dollars matters. We invite you to take a look and tag the restaurants below that we missed.
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We're hearing asks from the community that posts related to Blackout Tuesday use the hashtag #blackouttuesday, and not #blacklivesmatter. The #blacklivesmatter hashtag aggregates important information and resources for the community.
I am enraged to know that there are companies in Houston that are not allowing software engineers to work from home. People are afraid to lose their jobs and continue to go to the office exposing everyone. @HoustonTX the ball is on your court #selfisolation#COVID19
“How old are you? When did you start programming? How much time did you put in to be skilled at programming? Did you just focus on it or did you do something else..? Thanks..” - Fatima⠀
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I turned 25 this year and was first introduced to programming … https://t.co/xYMt8CA4XB
QOTD: Front-end, backend, or everything in between? ⠀
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I get this question a lot, and in practice I’m a full stack developer. As a technology consultant we tend to work on whatever needs working for a project: interface and associated analytics, the… https://t.co/yHuLUK5SWu
@laurieontech Had this conversation yesterday in the context of how to interview a campus tech candidate with a “perfect” solution that took multiple senior devs to decipher
Unreadable code is not maintable.
@robertreeves Thanks for the warm welcome! It’s caused a bit of a positive stir at our current client. Hadn’t heard of DevOps Days before but I am all for knowledge sharing!
Liquibase (n): A tool to track and apply changes to a database ⠀
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This project is the first time I’ve used Liquibase though it’s been around since 2006 (and this edition of #tenwordexplanations does not do justice to how exciting it is to use)⠀
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My… https://t.co/GQtELs6TXm
“How are bonuses structured at Credera? What was your last bonus?” - Sarah Chilk⠀
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Whether you’re considering changing companies or careers, salary and bonus can be a huge factor. While I don’t feel comfortable sharing my own on the wide world of In… https://t.co/ZZfryuUSND
New project and back in the deep end⠀
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#AD – As a technology consultant, the projects I work with vary widely. Last summer we were working on a billing migration in Scala, in January I was learning GatsbyJs and React, and this month I’ve been gettin… https://t.co/5LmcUSBLhT
🔥 I’ve been (unintentionally) MIA for the past month, so let’s talk life updates
The new project is going well, the team just started our third sprint and we’ve become very familiar with @salesforce’s Bulk API and the Spring Batch framework (this we… https://t.co/DuhFv2eiP5