pgambling

So glad someone brought up this book. It a good read and full of sound advice.

Thanks for sparking this discussion!

I'm a senior dev, but still relatively early in my career (~8 years). I've been thinking about your exact situation a lot lately as I have interviewed several candidates from various backgrounds. I see a lot of people with lots of experience, but they didn't make the cut after taking our coding tests and technical interviews that younger less experienced devs breezed through. I wonder if I will be in the same boat in 5-10 years myself because I haven't kept up with the newest technology. Like you, I have no desire to become a manager and I'm quite happy being an individual contributor.

Also being a relatively new Dad (toddler and a newborn on the way) only makes it that much harder to keep up!

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

I wouldn't test 50+ onclick functions. I'd used event delegation to assign the click handler to the appropriate parent element. I'm not experienced with Angular, but the last time I checked it didn't support event delegation :(

I tried it, but I didn't see "add telephone" in the hangout window. I also had to use my gmail address to start a hangout with myself.

I agree that animating the icons just for the sake of animation isn't useful. However, the precipitation rate of the rain and snow animations could change in response to the forecast.

Is "Breaker" in the title a Dark Tower reference?

I for one welcome our new supercomputer overlords.

It cracks me up every time I see a Microsoft+Linux headline.

Are most Azure users running Linux rather than Windows servers?