Category: Tech
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Book: The Manager’s Path
Early in my job hunt, I came across a “local” role as a Quality Manager. It was advertised as still involving some IC work so it seemed like a great way to test the waters of management. Ultimately I wasn’t selected for lack of management experience, but it did get me thinking about my journey, […]
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One Day Diet, one week later
Last week, I published my first app. I had spent about five hours on it. It worked, but usability was poor, and functionality was limited, but I really only intended it for my own use. Well, a few people have used it, and I’m a bit of a perfectionist. Since release, it has more or […]
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Is .firstMatch faster than .element? An XCUITest Becnhmarking Exercise
I recently came across a Youtube video (not linking it because I didn’t think it was particularly good) where a key point the presenter was trying to make was that using .firstMatch was far more efficient than using .element when attempting to locate an element because it stops at the first element found as opposed to continuing […]
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Follow-up: Reboot
It’s been just over a year since I announced my Reboot in which I decided to take my development skills to “the next level.” Since then I landed a new gig, have reached near expert level proficiency in iOS automation, and have kept going with the full stack course, but have really focused on being […]
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One Month Into Full-Stack
As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month? I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of […]
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Reboot
For the third time in three years, I’m being laid off. This time my company is shutting its doors. A good portion of folks are already gone, but I’ve been given two months to wrap up my work, document it, and hope someone at a firm specializing in maintaining failed businesses will be able to […]