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Recursion and How to Get All the records from a paginated API
I was recently working with an API that limited the max number of items it let you call at once. This was frustrating, because I needed everything. The solution, thankfully was recursion. Recursion is really fun when you get to use it. I needed to use this solution in both JavaScript and Python, so I…
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Rules for a “Smart” Home
The Promise Chips are smaller and cheaper than they’ve ever been. That means that we can measure and control things, affordably, more than we ever could. However, in a race to see what we can possibly create, there are many companies that haven’t thought if they really should be creating what they are. Steve Jobs…
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You’re not helpless, there IS something you can do to reverse climate change
It can feel hopeless watching hurricanes, floods, and droughts take down economies. Glaciers are melting, and temperatures are reaching levels that are inhabitable. If we were to solve climate change, does that mean we would have to give up all comforts, and jobs, and society, in order to live an uncomfortable life? Just to survive?…
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Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks
There are many things wrong with social networks and I won’t cover all of them here. But I’d like to address two. Productivity Tech really shines when it comes to making tasks more efficient. But I don’t want my relationships to be more efficient! There was a time before social networks where I had lists…
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On “Rockstar” Developers
Some teams have “rockstar” developers who only work on “spikes.” A spike is a story where a developer is assigned the task of figuring out how to accomplish something. The outcome of a spike is a prototype, or roadmap for reaching a prototype. Included in the task might be to evaluate different methods of accomplishing…
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A New Year, A New Look
I started with my career as a professional developer through WordPress. Over a decade ago my better half and a friend got together and founded an environmental news blog. I’ve been obsessed with the environment since I was a kid. When I was six I wrote a letter to my city council representative asking him…
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Implementing Agile – Part III – Slicing Stories
This is the piece of the puzzle I couldn’t figure out by myself. I needed to see it in action, implemented well, to understand what I was missing. I’ve seen a lot of stories sliced wrong, and some sliced well. Slicing stories properly can be the difference between a high performance team, and one floundering.…
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Implementing Agile – Part II – WIP
The first big “Agile” change I implemented was standup. Without it you can’t even begin to know what’s going on in your team, let alone help accomplish all it needs. But all standup is, is a daily window into what everyone is doing. That helps you know what’s going on, on a day-to-day bases. But…
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Implementing Agile – Part I – Standup
Early on as a manager, I came across Agile methodologies, but wasn’t able to get training in it, so I had to figure out how to implement it myself. After reading countless books and immersing myself in whatever I could find online, I was able to implement several key elements. But I still was missing…
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Make Yourself Dispensable
Originally published on forbes.com. “If you want to keep your job, you have to make yourself indispensable.” I’m sure you’ve heard that before. Here’s the truth – you will never get great work done if you are indispensable. If your tech company relies upon you so much that if you were hit by a bus the…
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Jack Reichert 