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This month in Eugene (March + April 2025 edition)

I’ve given up on a weekly edition. Maybe we can do bi-monthly? 😅 Beauty rest. The look he gives when he has do not disturb on. Eugene joined us on Spring Break which included his first visit to both a hotel and an ocean beach. He seems to have grown

The "you don't need to be technical" myth

When someone says “you won’t need to be technical in 10 years because AI will do it all”, it’s very likely that… 1. That person doesn’t have deep technical skills and therefore has no real understanding of what they’re saying. 2. They’re trying to make

Knowing your worth as a job candidate

I think it's probably common for job seekers to think that companies hold all the cards when hiring, but I'd argue it's way more symbiotic than it might seem. It's actually quite hard for companies to find good candidates for their roles,

Terrible resume advice in LinkedIn

I recently saw a recruiter post this on LinkedIn: Save it as a Word doc (.doc or .docx) Not a PDF. Not a Pages file. Recruiters often need to make small tweaks before sending it on to hiring managers. And PDFs are a nightmare to edit. This is terrible advice.

About that “technical” interview

If, in an engineering manager interview, you ask me to do anything with a binary tree I’ll probably fail it on the spot. I didn’t graduate with a CS degree and I’ve never been all that interested in the low-level mechanics of programming or languages. But I

Beware the fake remote job listing

Job seekers, beware the fake remote job listings. Any job that qualifies “remote” with “if you are within x miles of an office, you must be in the office y days a week” isn’t actually remote. I’ve seen dozens of these posts recently and there’s an obvious

Four day work weeks please

I’m a big, big believer in the four day work week. I’ve been lucky enough to have brief periods with it (a few months at a time), and it’s honestly life changing. Traditional thinking is that because employees have fewer hours to work that they’ll get

This week in Eugene (extremely behind in February edition)

OK, so the weekly post about Eugene's antics fell apart quickly (totally didn't see that coming). I haven't posted since the week of 1/20/25, so this is a "catch up for February" edition. 😬 Perhaps hard to believe, but February was

This week in Eugene (1/20/2025 edition)

January has officially arrived in Chicago, which means it's insanely cold and everyone is grumpy. Luckily for us this changes nothing about Eugene's vibe and he's helping us get through it by staying sleepy and even keel. The aforementioned cold does require us to

This week in Eugene (1/11/2025 edition)

It was a low key week – well, more than normal at least – since everyone was getting back into their normal work/school routines and there wasn’t as much time to just stare and admire Eugene all day. The pace should pick up once we get back into a normal

This week in Eugene (1/4/2025 edition)

Today marks the first edition of a semi-regular post featuring Eugene's antics for the last week or so in photo format. Hope you enjoy it. He got into the holiday spirit. He played with his cousin Ivo and battled over corn (we've all been there). After

New year, new (spooky) personal site 👻

For 10+ years I've been hand rolling my own blog and it's been...fine. My site was never going to win any design awards, but it was always fast, readable, and accessible. I used Jekyll + Github Pages for a while and more recently Hugo + Cloudflare to

Why you should federate your Threads account

tl;dr: It works like email, and your posts will have a much wider audience over time. Audience / Purpose This is a simplified primer for normals to hopefully convince y’all to use federation from Threads, so I’m going to be generalizing and glazing over details. Nerds, don’t

From IC to EM – A guide to stepping into the weird, wild world of management (Women Who Code Mobile 2022)

So you’re thinking about becoming an engineering manager, eh? Awesome, let’s go! I considered this exact same decision about a year ago, and ultimately ended up taking the leap. I’ll walk you through how I made the call to switch to being an EM after many years