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November 2022

Can you stay a senior engineer forever?

Here's an idea that can take the pressure off your career: Yes, you can stay a senior software engineer forever. But how?

Reader question: useReducer or XState?

Following up from my article about XState and Stately.ai, fellow reader S. asked if `useReducer` could ever be relevant when using state machines in React code. Yes! Here's how

October 2022

Reader question: Work at a big international or a local studio?

Fellow reader Frank writes in with a question about career moves and I thought my answer could help you too

September 2022

Reader question: Should you learn the latest hotness?

Great question. Common concern. *What if I get stuck in a technology that isn't hot??* Or worse, burn out re-learning every new thing 馃槺

August 2022

Reader Question: What do collaborative teams look like?

New members on our team invariably say 2 things: 1. Wow I've never seen a team move this fast 2. This approach feels weird. I'm uncomfortable Teams like this are not common.

Reader question: So about that perfect burndown chart ...

If your approach works so well, why isn't every team doing this?

July 2022

Reader question: Feeling guilt as a tech lead

Keep getting the guilt, that I'm not able to code, just running around for discussions and solving other issues, managing people. Any idea to manage all the fronts and get rid of this guilt?