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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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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!
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…
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…
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…
Tom Elliott
Aug 25, 2018
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