Irreplaceable isn't the point.
I came across this Dylan Fitzgerald blog post through the Changelog News newsletter. It's a short read that's worth a look. I liked the conclusion.
Irreplaceable won’t save you. Remarkable will propel you.
Tom Conneely
Kevin Miller and Coder Convos
Getting Started with Node Version Manager (NVM) on Mac
First make sure you have Homebrew installed. If not then follow the instructions on the Homebrew website.
If it is installed then run:
brew update
Once this has finished then run:
brew install nvm
Once this has completed there were some caveats in the outlined in the terminal.
You should
Lines of Code
When writing about Tim Mackinnon I was reminded of the Bill Atkinson -2000 lines of code story in Apple from the early 1980s. The story goes that managers decided to track productivity by asking engineers to fill in a form at the end of each week. In the first week
Be Careful What You Measure
I came across this story of Tim Mackinnon recently. It provided a valuable reminder of the importance of looking at your vision of success and how you structure incentives to realise that vision.
You see, the reason that Tim’s productivity score was zero, was that he never signed up
DHH on Rendering on the Server vs JavaScript Front-End Frameworks
I came across this video today with DHH discussing web development using server side rendering versus using front end JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular and Vue. It's not hard to guess on what approach he favours.
It is interesting to hear him speak of taking some of the
Hands-On Windows
I listen to a number of podcasts on the TWiT.tv Podcast Network. I like to support media I like when I can so I've been a member of Club TWiT for some time. This gives me access to the shows ad-free as well as members only shows