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Demo Day always makes me a bit wistful.
This one more than most.
Unexpected perk of a new dev job: Going back to a dark theme in vim instead of a light theme in Atom.
What’s the opposite of St. Totteringham’s Day? I want to be able to mark the occasion correctly on my calendar for Sunday.
#COYS
Testing from MarsEdit.
Excited to have access to ye olde micro.blog. Just playing around a bit for now.
Broken pieces and the anti-vaxx movement
Friday, September 12, 2014
Yesterday, in advance of Nova’s program on vaccines (embedded above), I tweeted the following: Vaccines do not cause Autism. To be honest, there’s likely nothing that “causes” Autism. It’s just there. That’s it. #vaccinesNOVA — Chris Vannoy (@chris_vannoy) September 10, 2014 I received a wave of responses from the anti-vaxx folks thanks to that. It wasn’t unexpected and it could have been worse. In the past, I’ve reacted to this stance and mindset from a place of anger.
Your hiring mindset
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The reasons for why you’re hiring have a great deal of impact on how you go about the hiring process. If you’re hiring because of another developer leaving, you’re going to be much more time-crunched than, say, a situation where you need more developer bandwidth for upcoming projects or simply future growth. In general, though, you might find it useful to keep the following overarching guidelines in mind when you begin the hiring process:
A couple of "The Outsourcing Playbook" notes
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
I’ve had my short ebook, “The Outsourcing Playbook”, in the wild for a while now and I have made a few adjustments. First off, I adjusted the pricing on Gumroad to be pay-what-you-want on the pdf version (including free). So, go get that now. Additionally, because I wanted to get this out to as many people as possible, I whipped up a quick and dirty HTML version of the book.
[Around the Web] Hiring and management links for July 3
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
I'm kicking off a new weekly feature today where I compile together links that caught my interest over the past week that are at least somewhat tangentially related to my in-progress book. Build Your Career: Michael Lopp (PeepCode) Lopp, better known as Rands in some circles, has been a huge influence on me ever since I first stepped into management. This PeepCode course focused on managing your career as a developer is sure to be fantastic.
Getting hired as a developer or designer
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Before I started writing my current book (dingus down at the bottom of the post to get the first two chapters free) on hiring developers, I started a book on getting hired as developer or designer. I might come back to it someday, but I thought I’d share one of the early chapters I had written for that book since it dovetails nicely with parts of the new book I’m currently writing from the opposite perspective.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
@nsbingham @coopman Done. In Reply To
'FollowIndy: An iTunes for News'
Thursday, February 18, 2010
I’m still waiting to hear back on FollowIndy’s status in Round Two of the Knight News Challenge for this year, but I wanted to take a moment to give a clearer picture of where I plan to take it, regardless of Knight funding. For several years now, I’ve found software inspiration in an odd place: iTunes, the ubiquitous music-management software behind all those iPods and iPhones Apple has sold. Most newspaper intelligentsia focus on the iTunes Store, looking for a way out of the media’s revenue woes.