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I'm no "rockstar" programmer. I'm more of a roadie.

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  • 5 Leader”tips” and the Software Engineering Success Summit

    5 Leader”tips” and the Software Engineering Success Summit

    Going from Individual Contributor to Manager, I had to learn quickly, and made plenty of mistakes along the way. These are some of the…
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    Tom Elliott
    Jan 26, 2021
    Can you use GitHub Actions for Monitoring?

    Can you use GitHub Actions for Monitoring?

    Short answer: you could, but you really, really shouldn’t.
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    Tom Elliott
    Aug 1, 2020
    Audiobook Review: The Unicorn Project

    Audiobook Review: The Unicorn Project

    The Unicorn Project is Gene Kim’s follow up to 2013’s The Phoenix Project, which I reviewed a couple of years ago.
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    Tom Elliott
    Mar 15, 2020
    How to test your Go packages with GitHub Actions

    How to test your Go packages with GitHub Actions

    Actions are a GitHub feature — currently in beta —  that allows you to add workflows to your repositories to execute automated tasks (such…
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    Tom Elliott
    May 12, 2019
    An unexpected effect with Go Slices

    An unexpected effect with Go Slices

    Go’s slices can be pretty powerful, providing an array-like construct that can be dynamically re-sized at will, and grown in a reasonably…
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    Tom Elliott
    Apr 3, 2019
    Disagree and Commit

    Disagree and Commit

    I was out getting lunch today, and something happened that got me thinking about how we deal with decisions we don’t like.
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    Tom Elliott
    Feb 27, 2019
    On “How to Win Friends & Influence People”

    On “How to Win Friends & Influence People”

    I just finished listening to the Audible version of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People and it’s been quite the read!
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    Tom Elliott
    Jan 31, 2019
    Detecting cycles: safer JSON marshaling in Go

    Detecting cycles: safer JSON marshaling in Go

    JSON marshaling/unmarshaling in Go is a very powerful feature, but there are limits to the Go structures that can be marshaled. Most of…
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    Tom Elliott
    Sep 26, 2018
    How to debug a running Go app with VSCode

    How to debug a running Go app with VSCode

    VSCode is a great editor for Go, providing a variety of helpful features to save you time while coding. It also includes support for…
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    Tom Elliott
    Sep 17, 2018
    Thoughts on a Decade of Blogging

    Thoughts on a Decade of Blogging

    I just realized that I passed my 10 year blogging anniversary this month. My first post on The Other Tom Elliott was early August of 2009…
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    Tom Elliott
    Aug 25, 2018
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