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How my experience as an engineer made me a better recruiter
How similar are engineers and recruiters? Turns out a lot. A developer turned recruiter adapted from writing code to recruit those who write code. -
Which D&D character class makes the best software consultant?
A D&D fan explores character class potential as software consultants, and ultimately chooses a class with optimal skills in communication and adaptability. -
Why maintaining broad impact communities is so valuable
What do we lose when formerly broad impact communities drop programming and become super insular? -
The Best Kind of Brilliant
The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him: -
Double Up with Test Double at ElixirConf 2022
Headed to ElixirConf? Test Double is sponsoring an in-person pairing activity and a virtual Ask Us Anything panel session. -
Activism for developers
Whether considered luck or a curse we've surely inherited interesting times. I'm sure many of you, like me, often wonder what, if anything, you can do to help. In the past few years, I've volunteered some consulting time with a number of small nonprofit groups in my town which led me to gain some insight into how they produce change. -
Abstractions II debrief
Test Double consultant Ali Ibrahim shares his takes from Abstractions II. -
Debrief: self.conference 2019.
Test Double consultants share their takes from self.conference. -
Debrief: RailsConf 2019
Test Double consultants share their favorite talks from RailsConf. -
Debrief: Lead Dev New York 2019
Last weekend I packed a head cold and a southern nonchalance towards weather preparation1, and flew northeast to attend The Lead Developer conference in New York. It wasn’t until I got there that it occurred to me I had bought my ticket based entirely on my experiences at the 2018 version of this conference in Austin, and had no idea who was going to be speaking at this one.
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