Pick up something new in the time you travel from one station to the next! This podcast uses a Q&A format to convey learnings and new ideas from a Apple Arcade games developer who transitioned into platform lead making AI-core applications.
Each answer aims to be less than 5 minutes.
Question: What’s the Wadge’s law of meetings and how does it affect how I will be heard in my company?
Wadge's law is where before every meeting there's a smaller meeting where important decisions are made. Newbies to office politics might miss this and get ignored when they try to push for a new idea during company or team wide meetings.
31 Mar 2021
Quick Life Update 2020-03-31
This is just a quick, unstructured update on why I stopped releasing podcasts for the last two weeks, save for one pre-recorded one.
20 Mar 2021
Question: What’s up with finite state machines?
Recently there’s interest on finite state machines on the backend and frontend. As someone who has used it extensively in the games industry, I would say while it’s a good step from what goes on in development right now, it takes some discipline to get it working, and I definitely prefer data-oriented functional programming over it, but I’ll cover data oriented functional programming some other time.
8 Mar 2021
What’s Conway’s law and how does it affect my promotion as a techie?
There’s a lot of other laws in programming out there, like Moore’s law and what not, but I find the one’s on programmer culture being especially interesting because programming is like half way between engineering and liberal arts, and there’s no hard and fast rule to it, so there’s always something related to psychology or what not.
6 Mar 2021
Question: How do you deal with the increasing amount of frameworks?
This usually comes up when you’re doing an interview or preparing for one, and you’ve got all the basics patted down until you get questions on specific frameworks that you might or might not be familiar with. This happens to everyone, and no matter how old you are, as a programmer you’re constantly expected to be learning new things. New concepts, new frameworks, new anything under the sun.
1 Mar 2021
Question: Should I aim for breadth or depth in my skills progression?
There’s only so much time we have but so much to learn, so it’s best if we get some gauge on how far we should learn something.
1 Mar 2021
Question: Do frontend developers or backend developers earn more in general?
People usually get the impression that backend folks earn more. Well, looking at raw salaries comparison often leaves people confused when they actually look for a job since it seems to depends on the situation....
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