The Curious Engineer

Accidentally in Code

2010–2026

1,425 posts

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2026 43

October 2026

  1. Escaping the No-Code Platform by Building a Software Factory
  2. Judgement > Output
  3. Attempting to reverse engineer code review
  4. Is the software factory working?

September 2026

  1. Good Architecture Is a Function of Time
  2. Nine Months of The Spreadsheet: What AI Taught Me About How I Work
  3. Book: Obviously Awesome
  4. What do managers even do now?
  5. Announcing: Breaking Into the Security Mindset

August 2026

  1. Skills for a more leveraged workflow
  2. The next weight
  3. The Date – Blunt Implement or Forcing Function?
  4. What would make next week better?

July 2026

  1. Book: Churn
  2. Maturing our development process as an AI-first 2 person team
  3. Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)
  4. The Second Cohort

June 2026

  1. Understanding the Game
  2. The Value of Getting Closer to the Work
  3. WordPress + Claude – a new look for cate.blog
  4. Useful AI skills for Engineering Leaders
  5. Making a New Plan

May 2026

  1. The Joy of Scope Creep
  2. The New Realities of EM Lyfe
  3. Force Multipliers
  4. High Throughput, Low Completion

April 2026

  1. Book: Burnout – The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
  2. Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
  3. Values Aren’t a Moral Imperative
  4. Who’s the Admin, Me or Claude?

March 2026

  1. A Season of Learning
  2. What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager?
  3. Wired for Change: When Tech Stopped Being “Safe”
  4. The First Cohort
  5. Ground Decisions

February 2026

  1. What’s Your Job as an Engineering Manager?
  2. The Spreadsheet: Using AI to Understand How I Spend My Time
  3. What Raccoon Are You Quiz (and some thoughts on vibe coding)
  4. Announcing: The Engineering Manager Survival Guide

January 2026

  1. Performance Reviews Are the Scorecard of Capitalism (And Why That Should Free You)
  2. Scaling Teams: People, Projects, and Process
  3. Spring Cleaning in December
  4. Q4 2025

2025 25

December 2025

  1. From Chaotic Learning to Intentional Growth
  2. Book: Life in Three Dimensions
  3. Resisting Capitalism’s Shoulds
  4. Announcing: DRI Your Career

October 2025

  1. Book: The Fax Club Experiment
  2. Q3 2025

September 2025

  1. Book: The Next Day
  2. Getting More Strategic
  3. Podcast: The Confident Commit on Strategic Career Decisions

July 2025

  1. How I’ve Been Using AI
  2. Q2 2025
  3. Book: Decisive

May 2025

  1. Working From Home: How To Set Boundaries With Yourself

April 2025

  1. Book: Careless People
  2. Q1 2025

March 2025

  1. Decisions
  2. Book: Backlash

February 2025

  1. Questions for the End of a 1:1
  2. Comfort Reads
  3. Thoughts on Reviewing CfP Submissions
  4. Explore / Pursue / Depth

January 2025

  1. Book: The Problem with Change
  2. What Makes a Good Team?
  3. Book: The Stake
  4. How do you DRI your career in a bad market?

2024 13

December 2024

  1. 2024 Highlights

November 2024

  1. Audio book now available!
  2. sudo make me a CTO interview
  3. Book: The Outward Mindset

October 2024

  1. DevZero Podcast: Metrics that Matter
  2. How can you be a good leader in a bad market?
  3. [LeadDev BookMarked] The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
  4. Four things I learned from coaching that made me a better leader
  5. What Comes Next?

August 2024

  1. DOU: The Engineering Leader: A Must-Read for Success-Oriented Professionals

July 2024

  1. Facilitating Good Decision Making: Context, Scope, and Timeframe
  2. Podcast: It Shipped that Way (v2!)

March 2024

  1. On Time

2023 3

September 2023

  1. The Engineering Leader Book: Coming 2024!

April 2023

  1. Podcast: It Shipped that Way

January 2023

  1. DOU Podcast: Empathy, Empowerment and Feedback

2022 26

July 2022

  1. From Visibility to Representation – Rethinking DEI
  2. Book: Thinking in Bets
  3. Console DevTools Podcast

June 2022

  1. Book: Machiavelli for Women
  2. Dimensions of Engineering Growth

May 2022

  1. Tracking When It’s Time to Quit
  2. Book: The Alchemy of Us
  3. Book: Coach the Person, Not the Problem
  4. Business Insider piece on Remote Work

April 2022

  1. Escaping The House Elf Management Trap
  2. 7 Suggestions for Writing a Good Self Review
  3. Meta Problems and Where to Find Them
  4. The Anatomy of a 1:1

March 2022

  1. The “Not Doing” List
  2. Energy Management for Newer Managers
  3. LeadTime – How teams work: DuckDuckGo’s engineering team
  4. The Battery

February 2022

  1. Low Process Culture, High Process Culture
  2. Co-Active: Synergy
  3. Book: Woman of Influence
  4. Sometimes you have to choose between being right and being effective

January 2022

  1. The Intention
  2. Book: Big Magic
  3. 2021 Retro
  4. 2021 in Photos
  5. 2021 in Writing

2021 52

December 2021

  1. The Year of Habits
  2. Your Action Plan to DRI Your Career
  3. The Habit of Ease and Flow
  4. How Do We Recharge?

November 2021

  1. 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job
  2. DRI Your Support System
  3. How to DRI Your Professional Development
  4. Book: Wonder Women
  5. Co-Active: Process

October 2021

  1. Talk: The Culture of Process
  2. Expecting More from Your Career (and Less from Your Job)
  3. The Rent Versus Buy of Career Growth
  4. The Habit of Adequacy

September 2021

  1. Book: No Rules Rules
  2. Being the DRI of Your Career
  3. Remote Meetings Panel
  4. Book: Off the Clock

August 2021

  1. Book: Trust Your Canary
  2. The culture of process
  3. The Being and Doing Brainstorm
  4. On Being “Strategic”
  5. 1 Year @ DuckDuckGo

July 2021

  1. Habit: June & July
  2. The Weekly Joy List
  3. Progress
  4. Pandemic Burnout; Now What?

June 2021

  1. Three Core Ideas to Make Remote Work, Work
  2. Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development
  3. Co-Active: Balance
  4. The Return of the Office

May 2021

  1. Habit: April & May
  2. Pandemic Problems
  3. Positive Intelligence
  4. Swiftly Speaking
  5. Book: Let’s Talk

April 2021

  1. Podcast: Ray Wenderlich / Living By the Code Series
  2. Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
  3. As an engineering leader, should you be working with a coach?
  4. Habit: February & March

March 2021

  1. Co-Active: Fulfillment
  2. Lead Time Chat
  3. Panel: Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader
  4. One Year of Staying Still
  5. Contravariance Podcast

February 2021

  1. Coachability++
  2. Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
  3. Co-Active Fundamentals
  4. Make Don’t Break #MakeDontBreak

January 2021

  1. 2020 in Writing
  2. 2020 in Photos
  3. 2021: Habit
  4. 12 Days of Creativity

2020 20

December 2020

  1. Interview in Capital.bg
  2. The Great DomestiCation
  3. Supermanagers Podcast

November 2020

  1. You can fix your hiring process: Here’s your five-step plan
  2. DevInterrupted Podcast and AMA

September 2020

  1. Interview: Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo on building a high-aspiring career without burnout
  2. Hotfixes for your Newly Remote Team
  3. Remote Work Discussion on Channel 4 News

July 2020

  1. How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello

June 2020

  1. Building Alignment with Co Leadership

May 2020

  1. Books about Therapy
  2. Remote-team managers can learn a lot from open-source communities

April 2020

  1. The only truthful answer to any question about management
  2. How to fix five of the most common pain points of working from home

March 2020

  1. Three signs of a poor hiring process—and four ways to fix it
  2. #rfrw? #rfrw!

January 2020

  1. The “Care” in “Self Care”
  2. Book: Living by the Code
  3. 2019 in Writing
  4. 2019 in Photos

2019 23

December 2019

  1. Mastering New Leadership Styles

November 2019

  1. A good onboarding experience for new hires requires two key things
  2. Every manager needs the magic of a work BFF

September 2019

  1. Distributed: How to Build and Strengthen Distributed Engineering Teams

August 2019

  1. Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career
  2. How to build—and manage—a self-improving team
  3. The firm with 900 staff and no office

July 2019

  1. The best thing you can do for your career is learn to be more coachable
  2. Why a good boss likes it when people complain

June 2019

  1. As a leader, your job should change every six months even if you stay put

May 2019

  1. Does your team need to rebrand?
  2. Addressing Hiring Gaps Through User Research
  3. Where do you start when a team is broken?

April 2019

  1. The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale
  2. Book: Managing Transitions

March 2019

  1. Creating the Productive Tension

February 2019

  1. How to begin the invisible work of change management
  2. The Cost of Fixing Things

January 2019

  1. Book: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
  2. Phase 1 of Hiring, Getting from 0-30
  3. 2018 in Photos
  4. 2018 in Speaking
  5. 2018 in Writing

2018 42

December 2018

  1. Why you can’t manage humans like they’re software

November 2018

  1. The four layers of communication in a functional team
  2. Answer these 10 questions to understand if you’re a good manager

October 2018

  1. Book: Love Sick
  2. The first two questions to ask when your team is struggling

September 2018

  1. Book: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
  2. Understanding how process impacts outcome can help avoid useless meetings

July 2018

  1. Book: So You Want to Talk About Race
  2. After the Toxicity the Toxicity Remains
  3. Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  4. Estimations and Orders of Magnitude
  5. The State of WordPress Mobile
  6. On Boiling Frogs and Drowning Rats
  7. Book: Whipping Girl
  8. Towards Productive Technical Discussions

May 2018

  1. Book: The Brand Gap
  2. Creating Success, Together
  3. Book: Org Design for Design Orgs
  4. How Should We Define Success?

April 2018

  1. Interview: How to create momentum on day zero
  2. How Do Users Define Success?
  3. Book: Finite and Infinite Games
  4. How Do Teams Define Success?
  5. Book: Playing Big
  6. How do Developers Define Success?
  7. Book: Brotopia
  8. Whose Expectations are Those, Anyway?

February 2018

  1. Book: The Art of Possibility
  2. Book: Women & Power
  3. Remembering the Eloquent Woman
  4. Book: Open
  5. Inclusion is a Hack
  6. Book: A Higher Standard

January 2018

  1. Managing Up and Down
  2. Book: Option B
  3. Try This One Weird Tip To Increase Leadership in Your Organization
  4. Book: Men Explain Things To Me
  5. Powerful Questions
  6. Book: Playing to Win
  7. 2017 in Photos
  8. Book: The Gift
  9. 2017 in Writing

2017 87

December 2017

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. Habits that Helped in 2017
  3. Questions for an End of Year 1:1
  4. 2017 in Speaking (and 2018 Speaking Goals)
  5. Home is Where the Work Is: Increment Mag
  6. Process Design
  7. New-ish Eng-Manager Slack, >1 Year On
  8. The Receptionist Test
  9. Book: The Future of Happiness

November 2017

  1. Quarterly Rituals: Empathy Challenge
  2. Book: How F*cked Up is Your Management?
  3. That Time I Was an Imposter
  4. Book: The Four Tendencies
  5. Be Less Afraid of Giving Feedback
  6. Simple Leadership Podcast
  7. One Year as 📱👑
  8. No Technically Speaking in 2018

September 2017

  1. On Improving Diversity in Hiring
  2. The AltMBA: A Retro
  3. Bi-Monthly Rituals: The State of All the Things
  4. When Your Job Gets Harder, Make a Friend
  5. Monthly Rituals: Snaps
  6. Book: A Beautiful Constraint

August 2017

  1. On Skip 1:1s
  2. Book: The Gifts of Imperfection
  3. The Magic of #FEELINGStime
  4. The Goals Spreadsheet
  5. I Send Love Letters from Airports
  6. Org Survey Part 2: Analysis
  7. Book: Steal Like an Artist

July 2017

  1. Org Survey Part 1: Questions
  2. Book: The Coaching Habit
  3. On Language
  4. Book: The War of Art
  5. Leadership Podcast with John Maeda!
  6. Book: Thanks for the Feedback
  7. If Lists Don’t Change Anything, What Does?
  8. Game: Feminist Art Genres

June 2017

  1. Lists of Women Don’t Change Anything
  2. Book: Radical Candor
  3. Speaking and Nerves
  4. Book: Superhuman Social Skills
  5. On Panels
  6. Book: The Anatomy of Peace
  7. “Who Made Your Slides?” (Not Me)

May 2017

  1. Book: Hidden Figures
  2. Preparing a Talk in Pieces
  3. Book: Scrum
  4. Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 6: Encouraging Accountability
  5. Mentoring Calls Available
  6. Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 5: Automating Things
  7. The Not-So-Secret Feminist Agenda
  8. Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 4: Building Connections
  9. Book: Sex Object

April 2017

  1. Running an Effective Mobile Engineering Team, Part 3: Setting Priorities
  2. Book: 80,000 Hours
  3. But Unfortunately, As You Know, People
  4. Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 2: Creating Predictability
  5. Book: The Manager’s Path
  6. Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 1
  7. On Coaching

March 2017

  1. Learn to Take Positive Feedback Well
  2. My Worst Public Speaking Experience
  3. Running a Manager Feedback Cycle
  4. Sponsorship Can Start Small
  5. The Weekly Notes Post
  6. Item: One Passport
  7. 2 Months of Photo Blogging
  8. Most Productivity Advice is Bullshit
  9. The Reaction

February 2017

  1. One of Those Days
  2. A Taxonomy of Remote Work
  3. All The Shades of Unsurprised
  4. Why Do Standup
  5. Upcoming Talk on Effective Mobile Engineering Teams
  6. Creating a Randomized Emoji String in Python
  7. Book: Devotion
  8. Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 5, Trust

January 2017

  1. What Does a Good Media Experience Look Like?
  2. Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 4, Feedback
  3. Technically Speaking: 2016 Emoji Report
  4. Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 3, Communication
  5. Book: Demystifying Public Speaking
  6. Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 2, Social Support
  7. 2016 in Travel
  8. Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 1, Your Schedule
  9. 2016 in Writing

2016 134

December 2016

  1. Figuring out “Remote Work” is Figuring out “Work”
  2. The 12 Coolest Things I Saw in 2016
  3. This Week
  4. The Kill List
  5. Book: Thinking Fast and Slow
  6. This Week
  7. 2016 Speaking and 2017 Goals
  8. My Favourite Management Reading From November
  9. This Week
  10. The ROI of Writing
  11. #NotAllMen Like Playboy
  12. This Week
  13. Diversity as Performance Art

November 2016

  1. Podcast: Should We?
  2. This Week
  3. The Daily 1, 2, 3
  4. cate dot blog
  5. This Week
  6. An Incomplete List of Things I Love About Remote Work
  7. Show & Hide: Free on the iOS App Store
  8. This Week
  9. Cate’s Career Coaching Process (AKA A Process for Finding Your Next Job)
  10. Book: Why Him? Why Her?
  11. This Week
  12. On 1:1s
  13. October

October 2016

  1. This Week

September 2016

  1. Why HR Shouldn’t Own Inclusion
  2. Invitation Only
  3. This Week
  4. Interviewing as a Manager
  5. Book: The Year Without Pants
  6. This Week
  7. Real Talk: Women in Tech and Money
  8. Book: The Laws of Simplicity
  9. This Week
  10. Hiring Manager Interview Questions
  11. MC-ing Try!Swift NYC
  12. This Week
  13. Speaker Notes: How To Be Invisible

August 2016

  1. Book: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
  2. This Week
  3. The Trouble With Imposters
  4. Technically Speaking Workshops
  5. This Week
  6. We Hire The Best
  7. New(-ish) Eng-Managers Slack
  8. This Week
  9. All the Leaves are Brown and the Sky is Gray
  10. Book: Taming Your Gremlin
  11. This Week
  12. Android: Testing an Intent Service
  13. 7 Months of Leaving

July 2016

  1. This Week (and last)
  2. This Week
  3. This Week
  4. This Week

June 2016

  1. The Organised Manager
  2. Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016
  3. This Week
  4. Worthless Intent
  5. Technically Speaking Update
  6. This Week
  7. Ambition, Failure, and my Favourite Podcast
  8. Creative Coding Podcast
  9. This Week
  10. 6 Months. 6 Lessons.
  11. Book: Leadership and Self-Deception
  12. This Week
  13. Big Co. vs Small Co. & Job vs. Career Stability

May 2016

  1. Book: First Break All The Rules
  2. This Week
  3. 4 Situations Where Managers Write Code
  4. Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  5. This Week
  6. I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s Why
  7. Management and Misanthropy with Cate and Camille
  8. This Week
  9. How I Run a Remote Team
  10. Book: One Strategy
  11. This Week
  12. On Saying No
  13. Giving Up on Android Wear
  14. This Week

April 2016

  1. Testing Intents on Android: Like Stabbing Yourself in the Eye With A Blunt Implement
  2. Just Say No to Thankless Emotional Labour: The T-Shirt
  3. This Week
  4. The Trouble With Women’s Events
  5. I Wrote a Book Chapter and Finally, You Can Read It
  6. This Week
  7. Empathy and Mobile Development
  8. Talking Shine Theory and Other Things on LTOE
  9. This Week
  10. That Remote Work Think Piece Has Some Glaring Omissions (A Rant)
  11. Habits, Revisited
  12. This Week (and last)

March 2016

  1. This Week
  2. This Week
  3. This Week

February 2016

  1. Another Break
  2. This Week
  3. #GHC15 – Brian Nosek: Solving Implicit Bias in Gender and STEM
  4. Thankless Emotional Labour as Management Training
  5. No Computer Day
  6. This Week
  7. #GHC15 – CRA-W Leadership Workshop: Gaining Recognition
  8. Interview Prep Tips
  9. My Process for Writing a New Talk
  10. This Week
  11. NSConf15: Marco Arment – App Marketing For Small Developers
  12. Bad Interviews are a Company Problem, not a Candidate Problem
  13. My Current Policy on Speaker Travel Costs
  14. This Week
  15. NSConf – Jessie Char – Expert of Nothing
  16. Categories Considered Harmful
  17. Presenting Lessons from Walking Tours

January 2016

  1. This Week
  2. #BeyondTheCode15: Hilary Mason – Creative Machines, People, and Organizations
  3. Advice for White Men
  4. AirBnB Travel Tip
  5. This Week
  6. Headphones (my Travel Indulgence)
  7. Android: Touch to Change Image
  8. 2016: Scale
  9. This Week
  10. Book: Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
  11. A Story
  12. 2015: Ship
  13. This Week
  14. Book: Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help them Stay
  15. OCMock and Values
  16. Start a Project. Kill a Project.
  17. This Week
  18. 2015 Review

2015 189

December 2015

  1. Maybe… You Should Apologise
  2. Denver, August 2015
  3. This Week
  4. Book: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
  5. The Hardest, Shortest, Lesson Becoming a Manager
  6. Project: The Ultimate Selfie
  7. This Week
  8. Book: High Output Management
  9. Diversity is an Attention Economy and the Economics Suck
  10. Moderating My First Panel
  11. This Week
  12. New Manager Resources
  13. Launching: Show & Hide
  14. Running a Mentoring Program
  15. This Week
  16. Book: Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking
  17. Technical Interview Questions and Time Management

November 2015

  1. Grief, Friendship, and the Most Important Thing
  2. This Week
  3. A Process for Writing an Abstract
  4. Further Adventures in Android Development
  5. Advice, Mentors, and Questionably Helpful Emails
  6. This Week
  7. Book – Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
  8. A Question
  9. Croatia, June 2015
  10. This Week
  11. Book: The Truth About Burnout
  12. Replacing KIF Tests with XCUI Tests
  13. Technically Speaking Anniversary & 2016 Speaking Goals
  14. This Week
  15. This Week

October 2015

  1. On Recent Events
  2. My Life as a White Migrant
  3. This Week
  4. #GHC15: Jo Miller – Build your brand as an emerging leader or technical expert
  5. Lasers and Practical Skills
  6. My GHC Survival Strategy
  7. This Week
  8. Communities @ GHC
  9. #ghc15: Natasha Murashev – The Zen Guide to WatchOS
  10. This Week
  11. The Sixth Time
  12. #Øredev14: Danielle Sucher – Don’t Take it for Granted
  13. 12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer
  14. Space and Time
  15. This Week
  16. #Øredev14: Dan North – Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career

September 2015

  1. Mobile is a Systems Problem
  2. The #NotAllMen Project
  3. This Week
  4. Rio, May 2015
  5. This Week
  6. #OreDev – Starting Up: Building Great Products with Small Teams – Jan Erik Solem
  7. Coping Mechanisms and Unlearned Skills
  8. Easter Island, May 2015
  9. This Week
  10. #iOSDevUK: Natasha Murashev – The Swift Architect
  11. A Brief Rant about TDD
  12. One Thing
  13. This Week
  14. Social Media Coping Strategies
  15. Codes of Conduct and Worthless Manfeelings
  16. Panel Discussions and Dissent

August 2015

  1. This Week
  2. Being Productive Offline
  3. Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity
  4. Milestones
  5. This Week
  6. Book: Mental Traps
  7. Magic Solutions to Materialize Women at 3 Days Notice
  8. Technically Speaking – From Conference Proposal to Submit
  9. This Week
  10. Book: Essentialism
  11. Refactoring and Legacy Code
  12. Structure, Meetings and Other People
  13. This Week
  14. Book: Better than Before
  15. Uncomfortable Conversations About Money
  16. Words
  17. This Week

July 2015

  1. Organising Things
  2. iOS: Getting a Thumbnail for a Video
  3. Santiago, April-May 2015
  4. This Week
  5. Book: Data Driven
  6. Problems with Resources
  7. Bogota, April 2015
  8. This Week
  9. Book: Just Fucking Ship
  10. Things You Don’t Learn in Technical Interviews
  11. Medellin, Colombia, April 2015
  12. This Week
  13. Book – APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
  14. Pitfalls for Men Talking About Diversity
  15. On Not
  16. This Week
  17. Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
  18. Unit Testing on iOS

June 2015

  1. This Week
  2. This Week
  3. This Week
  4. This Week
  5. This Week

May 2015

  1. A Break
  2. Reaching Profitability – 7 Things I’ve Learned
  3. The Story Behind The Newsletter
  4. This Week
  5. NSConf: Halle Winkler – Duck Taping the Gates of Chaos Shut
  6. A Small Focus Hack
  7. Giving a Talk and a Workshop – in Two Days
  8. This Week
  9. Book: Hot Seat
  10. Some Thoughts on Mocking
  11. Berlin, March 2015
  12. This Week
  13. Running a Weekly Newsletter – 7 Things We’ve Learned
  14. Discoveries About OSS Culture
  15. three-oh
  16. This Week
  17. Book: Confessions of a Public Speaker

April 2015

  1. Unit Testing on iOS: Beyond the Model
  2. Malta, March 2015
  3. This Week
  4. Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels
  5. Tuning Forks in Human Form
  6. Creative Solitude
  7. This Week
  8. Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night
  9. Launching! iOS Unit Testing: Beyond the Model
  10. Amsterdam, March 2015
  11. This Week
  12. Book: Thinking in Systems
  13. The Attention Game
  14. Internet-Lite
  15. This Week
  16. NSConf: Scott Little – Ultimate Spirit
  17. How I Interview

March 2015

  1. Other People, and Travelling Alone
  2. This Week
  3. NSConf: Jamie Newbury – Design Skills that Saved My Life
  4. You Get What You Incentivise
  5. The Year of Being Visible
  6. This Week
  7. iOSNext: Paul Ardeleanu – 10 Reasons You’ll Love Swift
  8. Creating and Comparing Images on Android
  9. March is a Whirlwind
  10. This Week
  11. Book: How to Invest Your Time Like Money
  12. The Woman Speaker Slot
  13. Things I May Never Get Used To In Berlin
  14. This Week
  15. Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation
  16. Four Reasons Unit Testing Needn’t Be That Time-Consuming
  17. Things I Love About Berlin
  18. This Week

February 2015

  1. 5 Books to Read Instead of Wadhwa
  2. Honey, I Left the Tech Industry
  3. Meta: This Week
  4. This Week
  5. Oredev: Alex Harms – Careful With Those People Skills
  6. Cross-Platform Development Decisions
  7. Thousands of Miles and There You Are
  8. This Week
  9. Oredev: Deconstructing Her
  10. Flawed Humans
  11. Finding Interesting Things To Do
  12. This Week
  13. Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”
  14. Some Things I’ve Learned About Performance on iOS
  15. Rest Day – Buffer Day – Focus Day
  16. This Week

January 2015

  1. #GHC14: Jo Miller – Office Politics
  2. Finding More Women on Social Media
  3. The Boat
  4. This Week
  5. #iOSDevUK: Maxim Cramer – Users Don’t Bite
  6. Creating Test Images and Comparing UIImages
  7. Fifteen is for Freedom
  8. This Week
  9. #iOSDevUK: Tehila Sabag: Mobile Monetization – Navigating in a Free Eco-System
  10. Problems of Statistical Significance
  11. Berlin, December 2014
  12. This Week
  13. #iOSDevUK – Luke Rogers: The Logic of App Design
  14. Getting KIF Set Up
  15. Working for Free
  16. This Week
  17. 2014 Review

2014 210

December 2014

  1. It’s Not an Asshole Problem—It’s a Bystander Problem
  2. Dubai, December 2014
  3. This Week
  4. #iOSDevUK: Hamish Allan – The Pareto Principle
  5. Getting Started with Adobe Air (or, trying to)
  6. Romania, Nov-Dec 2014
  7. This Week
  8. #iOSDevUK: Steve Scott: Sherlocked! Deprecated! Changed! AKA “Do Apple Hate Developers?”
  9. Corporate Feminism Part 2: How to Help
  10. Some Thoughts About Harassment
  11. This Week
  12. Notes: Dame Wendy Hall at WomENcourge – How to Enjoy a Career as a Woman in Computing – The Power of Networks
  13. In Defence of Static
  14. Things I Love About Travelling Alone
  15. This Week
  16. Book: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
  17. Corporate Feminism and Thankless Emotional Labour
  18. No Novel November (2014)

November 2014

  1. This Week
  2. Notes: IWD at Accenture
  3. iOS Testing: Handling Asynchronous Code
  4. The Entire Dev Team is Sick
  5. This Week
  6. Book: How to Deliver a TED Talk
  7. Three Tactics that Block Women from Getting Ahead
  8. Copenhagen and Malmo
  9. This Week
  10. iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoney
  11. Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems Problem
  12. How *are* You?
  13. This Week
  14. Book: Pioneer Programmer
  15. Speaker Notes: Burning Down The Patriarchy
  16. Personal Burn Rate
  17. This Week

October 2014

  1. #iOSDevUK – Sally Shepard: Beyond VoiceOver
  2. Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS: Part 2
  3. Live Tweeting My Own Talk
  4. This Week
  5. #iOSDevUK: Jon Reid – Controlling Dependencies to Enable TDD
  6. It’s Not That Big a Deal
  7. Public Speaking as Performance
  8. This Week
  9. #iOSDevUK – Martin Pilkington: Thinking in NSLayoutContraints
  10. Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS
  11. Tweeting Shit That Men Say
  12. This Week
  13. #iOSDevUK: UIKit Dynamics
  14. A Small Internet Kerfuffle
  15. 7 Reasons To Work From The Gym
  16. This Week
  17. #iOSDevUK: Marcus Zarra – Not Invented Here
  18. Male Allies and GHC

September 2014

  1. Talk Prep: Grids and Concertinas
  2. This Week
  3. #iOSDevUK: Hacking Health
  4. Learning What Not To Do Doesn’t Teach You All That Much
  5. Things To Write When I’ve Nothing To Say
  6. This Week
  7. Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  8. Conferences, Code of Conducts, and Being #ThatWoman
  9. R&R
  10. This Week
  11. Book: Gravitas
  12. A Little Bit Of Data is a Dangerous Amount
  13. Hobart, July 2013
  14. This Week
  15. Book: It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single
  16. Impostor Syndrome
  17. Exciting News
  18. This Week

August 2014

  1. Review: Misfit Wearable
  2. The Aristechracy
  3. On Leaving (again), Compound Effects and Falling Out Of Love
  4. This Week
  5. #ModevUX Design, Device, Delight
  6. Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and Opportunities
  7. Things That Annoy Me When Reading Novels
  8. This Week
  9. #GHC13: Panel on Entrpreneurship
  10. The Myth of the Intersection of Creativity, Energy, and Time
  11. Being an Expat
  12. This Week
  13. Book: Self Promotion for Introverts
  14. Bikeshedding
  15. Work vs Life
  16. This Week
  17. #ModevUX: Multiscreen Design @ Ebay

July 2014

  1. Software Engineers Aren’t Normal
  2. The Day I Leave The Tech Industry
  3. This Week
  4. Book: The Charisma Myth
  5. 5 Guys You’ll Meet in the Tech Industry
  6. 5 Things I Hate About London
  7. This Week
  8. Some Thoughts on Blogging
  9. Passion and the Developer
  10. 5 Things I Like About London
  11. This Week
  12. Time Blocking
  13. Some Things I’m Tired Of Hearing From Men About Women in Tech
  14. I Used To Make Apps
  15. This Week
  16. ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
  17. The Care and Feeding of Interns

June 2014

  1. (…)
  2. This Week
  3. Some Thoughts On Mentoring
  4. 3 Super Easy Things To Do For Other (Technical) Women
  5. Python Programming With Little Stemettes
  6. This Week
  7. Book: 4 Hour Body
  8. Teaching Chaos
  9. Making Someplace New, Home
  10. This Week
  11. Book: A Short Guide To A Happy Life
  12. Another Rant About The “Pipeline”
  13. The Procrastination Project
  14. This Week
  15. My 4 Step Plan For Giving a Talk
  16. The French Ski Problem
  17. Seattle, May 2014
  18. This Week

May 2014

  1. On Appreciation
  2. Your Guide To Undermining Women Whilst Being “Nice”
  3. Returning To The Stage…. Part 2: Speaking to Dudes About Love
  4. This Week
  5. Thoughts on Being Productive
  6. It’s Not Me, It’s You: When Users Break Up With Their Apps
  7. On Coming “Home”
  8. This Week
  9. Book: The Richer Sex
  10. Reasons Why It’s Hard to Find Senior Women Engineers
  11. Frankfurt, March 2014
  12. This Week
  13. Stepping Up For Technical Leadership – Girl Geek Dinner Sydney, August 2013
  14. 5 Reasons to Build a Native App
  15. Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
  16. This Week
  17. Responsive Web Design – GGD Sydney, August 2013

April 2014

  1. Returning To The Stage… After Harrassment
  2. Seattle and NYC, February 2014
  3. This Week
  4. 5 Strategies For Making Progress on Side Projects
  5. The Burnout Equation
  6. Spa Break, January 2014
  7. This Week
  8. Do All The Things, GGD Sydney, August 2014
  9. Sponsors, Mentors and Allies
  10. The Emotional Expectations of Women
  11. This Week
  12. Book: Principle Centered Leadership
  13. 5 Undervalued Skills in Tech… And Why You Should Master Them Anyway
  14. Things To Say Yes To
  15. This Week
  16. Some Thoughts On Taking Notes
  17. The Bubble in The Swamp

March 2014

  1. Life After Burnout
  2. This Week
  3. Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHC
  4. Distractedly Intimate: Your Users on Mobile
  5. Yoga Retreat in Sagres, November 2013
  6. This Week
  7. Advancing Your Career With Leadership Presence, GHC 2013
  8. Crisis of Conscience
  9. My On-Going Delusion About Being Human
  10. This Week
  11. Multiple Cellphones: How I Balance my Usage Across Both
  12. 6 Signs of Over-Engineering
  13. Iceland: November, 2013
  14. This Week
  15. Valerie Taylor – Keynote at GHC 2013
  16. My Completely Unscientific GitHub Survey
  17. Being an Ambivert
  18. This Week

February 2014

  1. Megan Smith on Moonshoots at GHC 2013
  2. 6 Things I Look For When Considering Projects and Teams
  3. Barcelona, November 2013
  4. This Week
  5. Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013
  6. Process, and Culture
  7. The Second Hardest Thing About Moving
  8. This Week
  9. On The Miseries of Technical Women: Dating
  10. So, You Finally Have a Woman on Your Team?
  11. Bali, October 2013
  12. This Week
  13. Book: I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
  14. 10 Ways to Develop Your Plan B
  15. US October 2013 (MN and CA)
  16. This Week

January 2014

  1. Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s How
  2. Walking The Line
  3. Strategies for Coping With Jetlag
  4. This Week
  5. Book: The Male Factor
  6. There’s An App For That is Not A Mobile Strategy
  7. Exhale
  8. This Week
  9. Book: The Power of Habit
  10. 5 Tips When Applying to Opportunities For Women in STEM
  11. Melbourne, August/September 2013
  12. This Week
  13. Book: The Four Agreements
  14. Your Users On Mobile
  15. Skiing in Queenstown, August 2013
  16. This Week
  17. Book: A Year in High Heels
  18. The Pipeline is a Bullshit Argument, and Other Rants
  19. Here’s to the end of 2013

2013 93

December 2013

  1. Tokyo, August 2013
  2. This Week
  3. Review: 40 Days of Dating
  4. Emotional Women Have Context
  5. Travel Packing List
  6. This Week
  7. Book: Chasing Daylight
  8. Habits vs Tasks: I Want an App For That
  9. North Korea: Overall Impressions, and Tips
  10. This Week
  11. Book: Pink Brain Blue Brain
  12. Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
  13. Experiment: No Novel November
  14. This Week
  15. Book: The Happiness Trap
  16. 3 Things I Learned on my Burnout Break
  17. The Difference Between “Relaxing” and “Being Relaxed”

November 2013

  1. Book: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
  2. The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer
  3. Sydney 2013: Sculptures and the Sea
  4. Some Thoughts on Gift Giving
  5. Cookie Not Found
  6. North Korea, July 2013: Day 6
  7. Jawbone UP vs Nike Fuelband
  8. GHC: Leadership Workshop with Patty Azzarello
  9. How To Be More Adventurous
  10. Success Metrics for Being Lost
  11. Book: The Power of a Positive No
  12. Getting On Top Of Email
  13. North Korea, July 2013: Day 5

October 2013

  1. A BS Metric for “Diversity”
  2. Book: The Misogyny Factor
  3. Book: The Education of Millionaires
  4. My Inspiration App: App Concept
  5. Getting Set Up on Android
  6. A Man’s Guide to Helping Women in Tech
  7. Staying Silent
  8. On Burnout
  9. GHC13 – What Are You Going to Do Differently?
  10. Thinking About Statistics
  11. Book: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
  12. GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in Conversation
  13. Three Phases of Technical Women

September 2013

  1. The One With the High School Bully
  2. I’m Leaving Sydney!
  3. Why I Hate Budget Airlines
  4. North Korea, July 2013: Day 4
  5. More Experiments Around RGB Averaging
  6. Highs and Lows
  7. Eliminating the Dominant Hue from an Image
  8. Folders of Images, Compare and Contrast
  9. North Korea, July 2013: Day 3
  10. Women in Tech: A Primer
  11. Sydney, One Year On
  12. My Theory of User Happiness and the Enterprise Application
  13. Visualising A Photo Series

August 2013

  1. Showing Only the Dominant Hue In an Image
  2. Extracting Dominant Color: RGB Averaging Doesn’t Work
  3. Extracting the Dominant Color from an Image in Processing
  4. Confidence
  5. Women in Computer Science: It’s a Hard Problem
  6. Medium Term: Tradeoffs and Refactoring
  7. North Korea, July 2013: Day 2
  8. Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
  9. North Korea, July 2013: Day 1
  10. Hong Kong, July 2013
  11. How I Learned To Love Solo-Travel
  12. Immersion
  13. Pycon AU: Planting Open Source Seeds

July 2013

  1. North Korea, July 2013: The Prequel
  2. Pycon AU: Making Python More Fun for Everyone
  3. Prague, March 2013
  4. Book: Making a World of Difference
  5. Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Pixels, Post-its, and Unicorns
  6. France, March 2013
  7. Wellington, May/June 2013
  8. Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Life as a Network Engineer
  9. Pycon AU: Solving problems by sharing them… with Python!
  10. Christchurch (and Surrounds), April 2013
  11. Pycon AU: Exploring Science on Twitter with IPython Notebook and Python Pandas
  12. Book: Sonia Sotomayer, My Beloved World
  13. And then, Nothing
  14. Shipwreck!

June 2013

  1. Art Adventures!
  2. Book: Bossypants
  3. On Building The Things You Want

May 2013

  1. Need to be Dull to be Creative
  2. Book: Unlocking the Clubhouse
  3. The Aftermath

March 2013

  1. Being !=OK
  2. Friends, Allies

February 2013

  1. Fear and Safety

January 2013

  1. Stories We Don’t Tell

2012 66

November 2012

  1. Guerilla Ruthlessness
  2. Fighting Monsters
  3. A Rant About Novels

September 2012

  1. Achieving the Quasi-Possible, Just About On Time
  2. Things Being A Woman In Tech Is Like: Flying Economy
  3. Building Things for Humans

July 2012

  1. MWF Seeks BFF
  2. How To Leave a Country

June 2012

  1. Why I Cut Down On Public Speaking
  2. Diva Problems
  3. Love and Other Fairy Tales
  4. On Feeling Uninspiring

May 2012

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13
  3. It’s Not a Disaster
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06

April 2012

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-29
  2. Losing Anchors
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-22
  4. I Cannot Die Washing a Teacup
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15
  7. The List
  8. Balancing, Integrating
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-08
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-08
  11. Brightly Colored Accessories for a Colorful Day
  12. 12 Angry Men
  13. Stand Out
  14. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01

March 2012

  1. Trust and Team Dysfunction
  2. Intellectual Feminism, and Sexist Pigs
  3. Female Chauvinist Pigs
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-25
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-25
  6. Excitement!
  7. Strengthsfinder 2.0
  8. On Having Adventures
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-18
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-18
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-11
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-11
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-04
  14. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-04

February 2012

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26
  3. Making Time for Cate-Time
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-12
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-12
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05

January 2012

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
  7. Intent
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-08
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-08
  10. Encouragement Beats Re-tweeting
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01

2011 161

December 2011

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-25
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-25
  3. From Hard Focus, to Flow, to Stop
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18
  5. Sim Family Demonstrates Personal Failings
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11
  7. My Career, Her Job
  8. Novels are the Best Hiding Place
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04

November 2011

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
  2. Come the Revolution
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20
  4. Emotional Roller coasters, and Being Less Neurotic
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06
  7. Not a Good Use of My Time?

October 2011

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30
  2. Engineering an Interesting Life
  3. Keep Telling Me to “Say No” Until I Learn
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23
  5. Wear What You Want
  6. Post-Grad Rehab: September/October
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16
  8. Trying To Be Everything
  9. Geek Girl Con: Secrets of Superheros
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09
  11. Blood, Bones and Butter
  12. Pride and Prejudice and a Timely Reminder
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02

September 2011

  1. Friends Don’t Let Friends… Become PMs
  2. Rise: How to Be Really Successful and Like Your Life
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25
  5. Getting a Jump on the Day
  6. Whistling Vivaldi
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18
  8. Awesome Foundation KW Meets Kwartzlab
  9. Post-Grad Rehab: August/September
  10. Misconceptions of What Software Engineers Do
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-11
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-11
  13. Relaxing
  14. First, Do No Harm
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-04
  16. How Not To Get Things Done

August 2011

  1. How To Give A Terrible Presentation
  2. Dealing With More Travel
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-28
  4. Leadership =/= Control
  5. Happiness is… A List
  6. Post-Grad Rehab: July/August
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-21
  8. Email Once A Day
  9. Getting Started With App Inventor
  10. Sunk Costs and Academia
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-14
  12. Decisions
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07

July 2011

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-31
  2. Living Priorities
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-24
  4. Time For Change
  5. Reminding Myself As To Why We Continue, Despite Everything
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-17
  7. Bagels, Chores, and Compromises
  8. Uncertainty
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10
  10. Grownups Make Choices
  11. Should all women aspire to be entrepreneurs? In OSBR
  12. Post Grad Rehab: June/July
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-03

June 2011

  1. Secret Lives of Superheros
  2. 168 hours
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-26
  4. Luck Factor
  5. Preparing an Ignite Talk
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-19
  7. Why Programmers Lie To Get Dates
  8. How to be Slightly Happier and get a Bit More Done
  9. Authenticity
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-12
  11. Little Things
  12. Post Grad Rehab: May/June
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-05
  14. Why Do You Awesome?
  15. But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur: Permission and Choice

May 2011

  1. But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-29
  3. Software Engineering for Superheros
  4. Changing Paces
  5. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-22
  6. Drawing Lines Around Your Day
  7. Positivity Challenge
  8. Advice for Future Engineers
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-15
  10. Exploring a Conference Hashtag: Part 3
  11. Choose: You Can’t Have Both
  12. Part 8: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08
  14. Post Grad Rehab: April/May
  15. Oh Hai 26
  16. Balancing Acts
  17. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01
  18. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01

April 2011

  1. Who Do You Think I Am?
  2. WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me Luckier
  3. Enjoying Some Whitespace
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24
  5. Books: Assorted
  6. Being Perfect
  7. Doing Too Much
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17
  9. Post Grad Rehab: March/April
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
  11. Insufficient Whitespace
  12. Awesome Foundation KW
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-03
  14. 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful

March 2011

  1. Confronting the Brutal Facts of Reality
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-27
  3. Making Mondays Manageable
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20
  5. No Drama, Please
  6. Stop Waiting; It’s Today
  7. 3 Challenges of a Remote Presentation
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13
  9. Stepping Down from Awesome Ottawa
  10. Post Grad Rehab: February/March
  11. What is Leadership, Anyway?
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06
  14. #TEDxWaterloo
  15. One Positive Thing

February 2011

  1. Fact Checking
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-27
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-27
  4. Simplicity and God Objects
  5. Sunflower Layout in Processing
  6. Being Yourself On The Internet
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13
  9. Don’t Panic. Don’t Procrastinate.
  10. Leadership and the Sexes
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06
  12. Post Grad Rehab: January/February
  13. Fear is Not an Acceptable Excuse

January 2011

  1. Following the Conversation: A More Meaningful Measure of Engagement
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30
  3. Right Now Is Just Fine
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23
  5. What is Work-Life Balance, Anyway?
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16
  7. Post Grad Rehab: January is for Career
  8. Why I’m Not a Teacher
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09
  10. An Overarching Theme
  11. Dropping Out
  12. Selective Email Alerts
  13. Breaking Privacy Expectations
  14. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02
  15. Most Popular Posts from 2010

2010 238

December 2010

  1. Being Human
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26
  3. Planning 2011: Kiva Challenge, and Post-Grad-Rehab
  4. I ♥ My Kindle
  5. Fighting Incrementalist Tendencies
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19
  7. Trading Off Inconvenience Now vs. Inconvenience Later
  8. School is Not Life
  9. Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12
  11. Being Present
  12. Books to Read Before You Graduate: Design Patterns
  13. The Reality Stick
  14. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05
  15. Patents and Prior Art
  16. Shipping

November 2010

  1. Ottawa, a Love Letter
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28
  3. Exploring a Conference Hashtag: Part 2
  4. Giving Up On Goals
  5. Building, Not Destroying
  6. In Pursuit of Awesome: The Perils of a Reactionary Workflow
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21
  8. Exploring a Conference Hashtag
  9. Drive by Daniel Pink
  10. Too Much Stuff
  11. In Pursuit of Awesome: The Difference Between a Vision and a Goal
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14
  13. Why I Never Buy Groupons
  14. Experimenting with a Visual, Activity-Based Curriculum
  15. In Pursuit of Awesome: The Myth of the “Right” Time
  16. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07
  17. In Search of Stability
  18. Unreasonable Expectations for my Calendar
  19. In Pursuit of Awesome
  20. Week in Brief

October 2010

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31
  2. Week in Brief
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24
  4. Becoming Less Awesome
  5. Week in Brief
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17
  7. Am I a Feminist? Depends on Your Definition
  8. Timing is Everything
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-10
  10. Week in Brief
  11. September
  12. The Waterfall Method is No Way to Plan Your Life
  13. Endings
  14. Email: Getting a Grip
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03

September 2010

  1. Sharing Lessons From Stories We Can’t Tell
  2. Don’t Snippet Me, Damnit
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26
  4. Chaos
  5. On Leadership
  6. Finding Your Cognitive Surplus in Grad School
  7. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19
  8. When Life Gets In The Way
  9. Computers as Appliances
  10. Being Dispensable
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-12
  12. The Story of a Girl Who Tripped, Fell, and Ended up in CS
  13. Part 7: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
  14. 10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme Blue
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05
  16. March-August
  17. Books and Paper and Letting Go
  18. Part 6: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?

August 2010

  1. Round 2 @ Google
  2. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
  3. Email: I’m Sorry, but I Hate It
  4. Part 5: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
  5. Women in Computer Science Links
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
  7. I am an IBMer
  8. Part 4: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
  9. Dating Explained in Terms of Priority Queues
  10. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
  11. Creating a Blog by and for Women in Computer Science
  12. Defining Dreams
  13. Part 3: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
  14. Artisan or Technician?
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
  16. Failure Is Not An Option
  17. Part 2: Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
  18. Maintaining Optimum Stress Level
  19. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01

July 2010

  1. My Secret Life as an Introvert
  2. Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
  3. “Must Not Be Used for Evil” and Other Things CS Students Need to Know About OSS
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26
  5. Programming Toolboxes and Functional Hats
  6. Extreme Blue
  7. When Excellent is Adequate, Nothing is Ever Good Enough
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19
  9. Geeking Out and Getting Happy
  10. Social is Normal
  11. Interviewing @ Google
  12. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12
  13. Delegation – What Value Do You Place on Time?
  14. Test Driven Revision
  15. Google Me, Google You
  16. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-05
  17. Teachable Moments in the Wilderness

June 2010

  1. #GGDOttawa: Art, Life and Programming
  2. Priorities and Next Steps
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28
  4. Back to Feeling Like an Imposter
  5. Working for The Man
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21
  7. Career Planning
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-14
  9. Inside and Outside My Comfort Zone
  10. Rebuilding
  11. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-07
  12. Upcoming Talk

May 2010

  1. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31
  2. Fear
  3. You May Say I’m a Dreamer…
  4. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24
  5. Reinvention
  6. Awesome Ottawa – on the Radio!
  7. CCWESTT Conference
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10
  10. Dream Chasing and Prevarication
  11. Math Error vs Code Error
  12. 25 and Dreaming (but less)
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03

April 2010

  1. Finding Balance and Doing Less
  2. I’m Back on Facebook, but I Still Hate It
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-26
  4. Testing Code that Depends on Remote APIs
  5. I Love Love Love Being a Girl
  6. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-19
  7. TV via iTunes
  8. Why I Can’t Wait to Escape from Grad School
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-12
  10. Giving Better Presentations: Tell Me Why I Should Care
  11. Processing Workshop
  12. Email 2
  13. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-05
  14. Inspiring Educators

March 2010

  1. Making Ottawa More Awesome
  2. Week in Brief
  3. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29
  4. Google vs. Censored Internet
  5. Happy Ada Lovelace Day
  6. What Makes a Programmer Great?
  7. Awesome Foundation Ottawa
  8. Week in Brief
  9. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22
  10. Being Nice
  11. Role Models
  12. Life Without Facebook: Week 2
  13. Can You Flow Your Way to Great?
  14. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-15
  15. Not a Scientist, Nor an Engineer
  16. Week in Brief
  17. Life Without Facebook: Week 1
  18. Closing Doors, Opening Windows
  19. It’s Not a Competition
  20. Down Time
  21. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-08
  22. The Desire for 100% Coverage
  23. Week in Brief
  24. Saying No
  25. February
  26. Parameterized Testing in JUnit 4, or Twitter is Awesome Because…
  27. The Ultimate Productivity Boost
  28. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01

February 2010

  1. The Roles We Play
  2. Week in Brief
  3. Usability Impacts Decisions
  4. Inspiring Words from Gabrielle Bouliane
  5. Twitter: Influence and Engagement
  6. 3 Books That Changed My Perspective
  7. Would You Give Up Your Blog?
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22
  9. Exponential Growth of Social Media
  10. Week in Brief
  11. Not (Quite) Having a Meltdown
  12. Visualizing Engagement on Twitter
  13. The Importance of Perspective
  14. Developers? Humans? You Guys Should Meet
  15. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
  16. Expat Adventures in Romance
  17. Week in Brief
  18. Levels of Engagement on Twitter
  19. Dream Big or Go Home
  20. Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce Rate
  21. Facebook’s Got Your Mail
  22. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
  23. Progress
  24. Week in Brief
  25. January
  26. Of Matchmaking and Meddling
  27. Rediscovering Balance
  28. Science Teacher Talk: Information -> Meaning
  29. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01

January 2010

  1. Unfriending on Facebook
  2. Week in Brief
  3. The Gap Between The Possible and My Imagination
  4. A Random Collection of Cool / Useful Things I Found on the Internet
  5. Fun With Prefuse
  6. The Trade-off Between Useful and Interesting
  7. First Day as a Ski Instructor
  8. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25
  9. Finding Balance and Motivation
  10. Why Aren’t You Testing Your Code?
  11. Week in Brief
  12. Programmers Will Change The World
  13. Smart Calendars
  14. Graduate School
  15. Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier
  16. What’s Your Natural Advantage?
  17. Release Time!
  18. Do We Need To Be Jerks?
  19. Expat Adventures: Getting a Car
  20. The Future
  21. Week in Brief
  22. A Diet of Live Frogs
  23. Experimenting with Delegating
  24. Do We Need Time Management Advice?
  25. Why Women are Better Programmers
  26. Mini-Generation Gaps
  27. Eating Live Frogs
  28. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11
  29. Effectiveness and Time Management Tips
  30. My Journal is Online
  31. Week in Brief
  32. Self-Promotion
  33. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04
  34. Student Workaholism
  35. Week in Brief
  36. Planning 2010
  37. 5 Things I Learned at Boarding School

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