Steven Oxley

Software engineer, mountain biker

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@GloriaUwan25332 I think we may already have some Nigerian employees.

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My team at Seeq is hiring for a couple of roles! One is focused on our Kubernete-based platform, and the other is dedicated to developer experience. Check them out:

Staff Software Engineer - Platform¹

Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience² [→]

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@eigenrobot This is how I feel about people who send me unedited video or audio messages.

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² https://t.co/5qj0GpQX2I

³ https://t.co/oPObxPFhAP

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If you like learning via books like me, you might be interested in reviewing manuscripts prior to publishing. It can be fun because you can help shape the book and also learn about the topic.

Here are some of the books I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing: [→]

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If you’re interested, this is where you can sign up as a reviewer for Manning as a start: https://t.co/R9jiutsNnw

¹ https://t.co/WXzKezSuZ7 [→]

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@tech_power36661 My team doesn't have a need for building production-ready mobile apps or desktop applications, I'm afraid.

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@GloriaUwan25332 There are a few countries we cannot hire from (can't remember the exact list, but France and India are on it). Aside from that it's worldwide as long as there's good work time overlap with our core hours (8am-12pm Pacific Time). Our team includes Romania, Brazil, US.

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If you apply, let me know via DM, email, etc. so that I can make sure your application gets reviewed (by me!) 👀

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²https://t.co/sVRKcGy2hK

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are much better choices.

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If you’re in software and early in your career, the book Clean Code¹ is often recommended as a must-read. I, however, do not recommend it. I read it with a group at work a few years back, and I think it’s haphazard and riddled with subpar advice. It’s also aging. There [→]

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be “Sk8s” (Seeq on Kubernetes, pronounced “Skates”). People have really run with it, too, with follow-on names like “Sk8park” and “Sk8board.”

¹https://t.co/mnbElEYJvD

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As I mentioned in Are Migrations Good for Your Career?¹, “naming things” is notoriously one of the hard problems of Computer Science. But naming things can also be fun! What is the best name that you’ve come up with at work? The name I’m proudest of so far would have to [→]

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they’re good, pick this one up.

¹https://t.co/rPnGHyCsWf

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I think Grokking Simplicity¹ is a must read for anyone who works with code. Even if you’re vibe coding, Grokking Simplicity can help you instruct your AI agents to generate good code rather than slop. If you actually want to apply functional concepts and understand why [→]

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When is the last time you thought about how you make decisions or evaluated your decision success rate? I’m trying to be more intentional about my decision-making: https://t.co/RsnkeUVKAg

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requirements, but I’m looking for what other options are out there.

¹https://t.co/BYHvcaU7xW

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I am a big fan of Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE)¹, and I have been doing it for a while (this post is POSSEed, for example). Anyone else doing it? If so, what tools are you using? I’ve created a babashka script that currently meets my main [→]

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Form template based on his list of questions in case you want to try it, too: https://t.co/bDHRvEOIkH.

¹https://t.co/aGAfCJT96k

²https://t.co/tHpfVNlrwQ

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I was listening to the My First Million podcast¹, and Shaan Puri² shared a decision-making framework he uses to help him make better decisions (and record decisions for later analysis). I thought it could be useful to record decisions in this way, and I created a Google [→]