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The Simple Pleasures of a Mobile Office Whiteboard

I’ve built a lot of stuff for my home office over the last few years of working from home, but my current favorite is something so simple: A custom rolling whiteboard A couple of weeks ago I gave myself a Saturday challenge to take my existing old whiteboard and build a rolling stand for it only with materials I had in my workshop.

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I’m Leaving my Role at Studio71

Back in October, after 11 years at the company, I made the decision to leave my full-time CTO role at Studio71. I came to Studio71, then called The Collective (and later Collective Digital Studio), because I wanted to build something big. I love building things, and by things I mean all the things: software, teams, culture, process, business, revenue, arcade cabinets…I’d love to learn how to weld, but I digress.

A Decade of Clojure at Studio71

What is Clojure and why did it fit for Studio71? Clojure is a programming language (a dialect of Lisp) that excels at concurrency and data processing. Clojure runs on top of Java so it’s runs in all of the places Java runs and can use all of the Java libraries already out there (hello, Google and AWS libraries!

Why Are Technical Interviews Still So Bad?!

Python for Engineers has a great post on how terrible technical interviews are for people on both sides of the table. There is this idiotic myth online that the majority of programmers cannot program. That everyone else looking for a job is an idiot, and our job is to expose them, to teach them a lesson, to humiliate them till they quit.

Shopify Cancels All Recurring Meetings with Over Two People

If you were wondering what the latest thing that a CEO thought up in his shower the size of a studio apartment that has one of those terrible “rain” shower heads and is now shoving it down his employee’s throats is… As employees return from holiday break, the Canadian e-commerce firm said it’s conducting a “calendar purge,” removing all recurring meetings with more than two people “in perpetuity,” while reupping a rule that no meetings at all can be held on Wednesdays.

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The Infosec Cold Call

I get asked occasionally about ways to improve corporate information security or what kinds of things get easily missed, and while I’m no expert, and there are an endless number of little things you can miss these days, there’s one way I rarely hear mentioned and I like to remind technical leadership about: