Technosocial
Everything about life around technology: jobs, methodologies, and opinions.
Everything about life around technology: jobs, methodologies, and opinions.
Have you switched to management at some point in your career and regretted it a while later?
If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably typed something like “should I quit social media” or similar expressions of the same thought into your favorite search engine. Don’t you worry, we’ll feed your confirmation bias right here.
Inspired (triggered?) by a good friend’s post on LinkedIn that was talking about all the good that comes from drones, I accepted his challenge to write a quick list of at least 50 evil uses that come to my mind to demonstrate why my future vision of mini-artilleries on roofs is perfectly reasonable.
Did you know that your cover letter won’t be read and that your CV will be looked at for a few seconds at most? Let’s take a look at job applications from a hiring manager’s perspective.
Instead of doing the same old bad slides combined with bad audio on Zoom, let’s learn from YouTubers and dig into free and open source tools to change the way we teach in the face of the pandemic.
“Senior Software Developer” — says the text on the business card. But what makes someone senior? Is it the age? Is it the years in the business? Know-how? There’s a sometimes heated and, to some extent, endless debate going on what makes an engineer senior.
Use the cloud, they said. It will be great, they said. Why is it painful then?
Turns out, this working remotely thing might be better than what we used to do in the office.
There’s an invisible war being waged in the IT industry. A war to find out which way is the best to produce code.