A few months ago I saw a great little blog post about state machines on the Shopify blog. The message was that state machines are great and developers should use them more – given my recent experiences with state machines at CrowdHired, I could certainly agree with that. But it got me thinking, how many times in my developer career ...

“I will learn it when I need it“! I’ve heard that phrase a lot over the years; it seems like a highly pragmatic attitude to foster when you’re in an industry as fast-paced as software development. On some level it actually IS quite pragmatic, but on another level I am annoyed by the phrase. It has become a mantra for ...

I’ve talked about interviews from one perspective or another on several occasions, you might even say it is a pet subject of mine. It’s fascinating because most people are no good at interviews and when it comes to developer interviews – well; let’s just say there is a whole new dimension for us to suck at with coding questions, whiteboards ...