Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t looking for a way forward in tech. This article is going to be heavily targeted towards traditional IT and support roles. If you’re looking for standard coding gigs or similar, go elsewhere. While I do cover certs which can help a coding career, they aren’t the focus. Tech is huge, but the “lower rungs” are easier to grab on to.… Read the rest
Tech has traditionally been one of the more unorthodox career paths for the better part of the past half century. Few other careers have had the raw flexibility or unbridled chaos of the tech industry. The tech industry has ridden out the dot-com boom and bust, the growth of Silicon Valley as a cultural element, and the corporatization of IT. Things have changed for better and worse, but the majority of IT has slowly evolved into a blue-collar office job.… Read the rest
While the “learn to code” movement has largely died out from mainstream attention, it’s still alive and well and influencing budding programmers all over. Development jobs offer the sweet prospect of a profitable, creative career which is purely based on merit and can propel anyone from broke to upper middle class in a few years. The scariest part is that it’s mostly true, but you can’t just learn to write code, you need to learn to program.… Read the rest
I’ve heard a bewildering number of career advice claims since I started working in tech. There is always some secret knowledge which you can use to take your career to the next level. It’s not enough to be a coding ninja rockstar or whatever buzzword bingo you see in a job ad, you have to focus on the “metagame” of your career.… Read the rest
Launching Your First ProductI have really mixed feelings about project launches. It’s the culmination of many hours of blood, sweat, and tears, but once the product gets going, there’s still work to be done. Normally you get either one or the other, but what if you’re a startup? You have to learn to do everything and plan for the chaos that is launch.… Read the rest
The software development cycle is a pattern of inception and growth, growth and maturation, stagnation and decay, and then the cycle repeats… usually. Like most things, this is the ideal, but not necessarily a guarantee. Real life tends to love to distance from the ideal, so what really happens with this cycle?
The cycle may repeat, but you may not be on the next turn, you might get stuck in the maintenance cycle (which feels like it never ends).… Read the rest