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Ash Anderson

Ash Anderson

Texas, USA 6 posts
I'm an Engineering Manager who loves to build little things in the evenings, learn, and teach. My tech stack of choice is full stack Rails and whatever projects I'm currently writing about are probably being built in it.
Culinary Globe-Trotting: Our Weekly International Cooking Challenge
Learning

Culinary Globe-Trotting: Our Weekly International Cooking Challenge

We've recently started a fun thing at home that's helping us explore new foods and teach geography to our two young kids. Here's how it works: Visit random.country and click the button. Get a random…
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How Long Will The Surgery Take?
Software Engineering

How Long Will The Surgery Take?

Like many of you reading this, I occasionally browse Hacker News. Often, these ventures lead me to articles about software estimation and its inherent challenges. Estimating software can indeed be…
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'Show Your Work': A Nudge Towards Daily Creation
Productivity

'Show Your Work': A Nudge Towards Daily Creation

"Show Your Work" is a book by Austin Kleon. I've read another of his books in the past about being creative, and this one has a similar vibe. Though the book is quite short, with just 131 pages…
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From Checklist to Feedback: Crafting a Stellar Onboarding Experience
Software Engineering

From Checklist to Feedback: Crafting a Stellar Onboarding Experience

There will come a time in your growth journey when you're expanding so rapidly that micromanaging each new employee's initial weeks becomes unfeasible. The good news? With a bit of preparation and…
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Streamlining Development: The Power of Smaller PRs and Time-to-Merge Tracking
Software Engineering

Streamlining Development: The Power of Smaller PRs and Time-to-Merge Tracking

If you know even a little about me, you'd know I enjoy playing around with data, and I've been immersed in it lately. Lately, I've taken a liking to the "time-to-merge" metric. In simple terms, the…
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What?
Personal

What?

I like writing. I like sitting down and getting the thoughts out of my head. However, there's a problem, what do I write about? In a sense, this is kind of a meta post. A post about deciding what to…
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