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From fungible to linchpin
Unbeaten career advice: If you write software for a living and you want to move from “fungible resource” to linchpin, start understanding the big p...
Tim Mecklem
Managing Partner at Launch Scout | Software Engineering Leader | Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, and Rails Enthusiast
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AI needs technical oversight
Despite my technical background, I almost shipped two features* to our internal production application that could have cost Launch Scout time and m...
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AI coding as improv comedy
AI-assisted development is great, but also can get extremely frustrating. It continues to work better if I think of it as “improv comedy coding” in...
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Measuring vs Controlling Software Projects
A lot of project managers and delivery teams don’t know what a truly successful software project looks like. Successful in solving a business probl...
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Phoenix LiveView Websocket Fallback Session Cache
If you ever run into a phoenix app continuing to fall back to longpoll even after you’ve configured the websocket correctly, clear the browser’s se...
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Dogfood something with AI
If you’re a developer using AI, dogfood something. Build something end-to-end that solves your own problem (where you’re the customer), and own it ...
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