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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

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