If cognitive diversity is what we need to succeed in dealing with new, uncertain, and complex situations, we need to encourage people to reveal and deploy their different modes of thinking. We need to make it safe to try things multiple ways. This means leaders will have to get much better at building their team’s sense of psychological safety. Link: Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

A lot of my work in the last decade has been with partially or entirely distributed teams. I expect that to be the case going forwards as more and more software engineering work switches to distributed / remote teams. To communicate with other members in the distributed team, I use video calls for: pair programming the daily standup call 1-1s the weekly leadership call company all hands / town hall catching up with friends This is post is for sharing some things I’ve learned that give me a more joyful experience with video calls. Maybe some of the tips can improve your experience. ...

On Wednesday 2020-01-29 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...

Full-stack software engineer with a bent towards web standards, quality and longevity of applications available for hire. I have worked professionally as a software engineer since the late 90s. I’ve seen a good breadth and depth of applications over the years, having worked on green field, established and legacy applications. I enjoy improving existing applications as much as working on green field applications. Happiness looks like Organisation People first organisations Diversity and inclusion Effective, open, bi-directional communication (NVC) Product / project Users first thinking User Story Mapping NoEstimates, forecasting Open minded pragmatism Technology Lean Web Progressive Enhancement Web standards ECMA-262 Accessiblity (WAI) System fonts What I am hoping to find in my next role I am hoping to find a diverse team in a diverse organisation (or one that is trending that way). I regularly contribute to open source and hope to continue that work in my next role, perhaps in combination with mentoring of other engineeers. ...

A well built, performant website can be created with any framework or type of technology in existence. It may be harder with some than others, but it can be done. The issue is the developer and designer mindset in many companies. With said mindset being that web development and design should be ‘fun’. I fully believe a lot of developers and software enginers put their job satisfaction above their users or customers. ...

For a project at work, we needed an autocomplete component, that meets the following criteria: zero dependencies decent WAI-ARIA / accessibility support reasonable license good test coverage remote filtering custom rendering of options separation of presentation from the value selected I am a firm believer in open web standards. Whenever feasible, I prefer to apply lean web principles and leverage the full feature set of the web platform. While there is a <datalist> element in the HTML Living Standard spec, it is not up to par for the requirements listed above. ...

On Wednesday 2020-01-15 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...

The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 30th at 18.30. Venue We will be hosted by my former client, employer Zalando SE, in one of their offices. Zalando SE Mühlenstraße 25 10243 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find and the front desk know we’re coming. Food & drink Zalando are treating us to pizza and drinks 👍 ...

The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 2nd at 18.30. Venue Fy! Hinterhof Rechts - 5’ Glogauer Strasse 5 10999 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find. Structure We will try to follow the recommended structure. This means we will have a “Quiet Writing Hour”, which I am very excited about. ...

The Lean Web book is very good and recommended for anyone buidling things for the web. Chris Ferdinandi has managed to capture many of the thoughts and ideas, that many of us of have been thinking about since the “JavaScript revolution” started. There’s a talk too, if you’re more into that. Via adactio