Derek Smith

Let what’s dying serve as fertilizer for what’s awakening. ozanvarol.com/the-beauty-of-…

I'm hiring for a Sr. Developer (dotnet/Angular/Azure) fsiservices.applytojob.com/a…

Velocity defeats itself. Get acceleration instead jessitron.com/2022/12/22/vel… via @jessitron

Multiple openings for C# developers in the Healthcare tech space. fsiservices.applytojob.com/a…

FSI is hiring software engineers, product, and other roles. Check us out! fsiservices.com/careers

Now this I can get behind. So many memories of apps in this style. jdan.github.io/98.css/

"Make mistakes, just don't make them permanent." –@JamesClear

Just discovered tab grouping in @MicrosoftEdge and now instead of 100+ tabs across 14 windows, I have 100+ tabs in 16 groups in one window. Feels like progress, but we'll see if I can find anything tomorrow morning.

Yes 1000x

Bookmark: The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers smashingmagazine.com/2022/04… via @smashingmag

Excited to begin a new job today. First assignment, fly to Rhode Island.

"If you'd like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day. There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice." –@JamesClear

One way I've found to battle imposter syndrome is to take a project you've done in the past and upgrade it to today's standards. It will show you just how far you've come.

Spent the weekend converting VB to C# for a side project. This is deficit spending now to enable much faster development and modernization cycles in the future.

Being a developer means truly believing you can do a year's worth of work in a weekend.

Hit my first microservice circular dependency situation today. That was fun.

Another payday, another domain registration for a side project. This one is going to stick, I promise.

I've been called a "boat rocker" on more than one occasion as I try to address what is described in this article. Leadership is key to move teams and orgs forward and break these cycles. okayhq.com/blog/status-quo-i…

As a developer, you work with the emotions of the code your write. As a leader, you work with the emotions of the team you lead. Emotions in people often cannot be debugged the same way as in code. Good engineering leaders recognize the difference.

This week my VP reassigned two more teams to report to me. Leadership challenge accepted.