Matt
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White Shoe Syndrome
You know what you need to do to launch your business, you have the skills, you have the idea, and yet progress is slow. Maybe you have White Shoe Syndrome. The problem with white shoes is that they are always dirty and need to be cleaned. When it is time to sit down at your…
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Adjusting to Fewer Blogs
A couple weeks ago I drastically downsized my list of subscribed blogs. Going from skimming 200+ blog posts down to fewer than 10 per day. It has actually made quite a difference. The time saved was used to read more books, which I’m happy to say has worked out. Being disconnected from the news has…
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Long Vacation
For the last 2 1/2 weeks I have been on a long vacation back home to Newfoundland. This time we seriously lucked out on the weather, getting in two weeks of 25+ degree sunny days. We bookended the trip starting with the Tele 10 at the start and the Regatta to finish things off with…
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Free Coding
Getting into the flow or zone as a coder is when you are your most productive and code spews from your fingers into your favourite text editor as fast as you can type. When in the zone you can seemingly pour out 100’s of lines of code in no time. But how do you get…
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Think Weeks
One of the things Bill Gates did was to take a semi-annual ‘Think Week’ retreat. During this week he would extract himself from all obligations and hole up in a hotel somewhere with a stack of books to read. To Bill Gates these retreats were critical to his ability to stay ahead of big picture…
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Tele 10 Finished
One more thing to knock off the bucket list. Yesterday Heather and I finished the Tele 10 race in St. John’s. My time was good considering zero training runs over the last few months. I was counting on the adaptation to Calgary altitude to help me power through the race. That seemed to work. At…
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Manager Who Codes vs Developer Team Lead
Personal branding is deceptively effective in many cases. The difference is skills between a manager who codes and a developer team lead is negligible. In many cases you could say they are job titles that describe the same role in a company and yet from a HR and status point of view they are very…
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Reading Fewer Blogs
For years I have had an extensive reading list of blogs that I read through everyday. Scanning through 200+ blog posts per day was a way for me to keep up with the latest things happening. However, the time it takes to read through everything was significant. I’ve decided to greatly reduce my subscribed blogs…
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Ada Walking
On Tuesday, Ada took her first un-assisted steps. It’ll be a while until she develops the confidence to really get around the house on her own, but clearly that time is coming. I was convinced that she would be walking much earlier than this. She was putting weight on her legs since she was 1…
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Microservices
The term Service Oriented Architecture has been twisted by so many people now that it has lost some of it’s meaning. Microservices is a software architecture for web apps that aims to define a more specific way of doing SOA that isn’t so fuzzy and hand wavy. Web applications have long been developed in a…
