Focus on breadth instead of depth. — Let’s imagine you’re considering two candidates for a Backend Engineer Position. One candidate is super experienced with Python and has deep language knowledge. The other isn’t as proficient in Python but has experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Bash Scripts, and more. Who would you take? …

Your knowledge should not be allowed to rot away in your brain. — If being a software engineer is your day job, you’re probably all too familiar with using git repositories for your day job. You save all of their code. But what about the code you learn to use while on the job? …

I’ve started a substack publication where I’ll exclusively share my daily drafts from NaNoWriMo this year! You can join that here:

Here are some actions you can do on your own to ensure a successful code review session. — Are you new to code reviews? Always feel like you mess them up in one way or another? Today I have some essential tips for you to prepare for code reviews properly. The correct way to prepare for code reviews is to make sure you can review your code first…

Automate some tasks to push high-quality code. — Some of us work in a certain standard of code development. Like automatically lint your code when hitting save. Some of us don’t even know what linting is. I belong to the former. Which group are you on? Regardless of your choice of code standard, you have to try using…

And use them to grow your skills. — One of the behaviors I regret most from my newbie beginning as a software engineer was my reluctance to participate in code reviews. It’s not like I had much choice in the matter, but I didn’t like it. I felt judged. Today I want to talk about why this is…

Here’s why you should too. — At the beginning of my software engineering journey, I devoured coding tutorials left and right. After a while, I realized I was not retaining the information these videos presented to me. I’d watch them and not remember anything. So I stopped. In this post, I’d like to share what I…

Vulnerability ahead! Shana Tova, and happy new Jewish Year to all my followers! The next one will be even better :) — It’s Sunday and holiday eve here in Israel as of writing these words. In a few short hours, many Jews who don’t even frequent the synagogue will appear at their local temple — all dressed in white — to celebrate the new Jewish year. I will also make an appearance…

Exploring what Freedom means and how to gain it in 2022. — What is freedom? Is it being able to wake up whenever you want? Is it being free of bosses or managers? Each of us defines freedom differently. For me, freedom has always been about money. For Years I have struggled with loans and credit cards. And it was my own…