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Tech leads and visionaries don't have to be Buddha. RECONSIDER recent blog post by DHH DHH Fuck You - showing some of his brashness Laravel Podcast - the episode I referenced in this article isn't actually out yet, check back soon.

Rapid Application Development and Testing can be best friends forever. My slides from Zendcon Laravel's Testing documentation Confomo refactor branch

How do you prioritize your work when you have too much on your plate?

Every developer's experiences, needs, and clients are just a bit different.

Learning how to answer the question, "What code should I test?"

Being a Remote Employee Ain't Easy 37Signals Remote

Concentrate.app The Mildly Alarming Podcast - Third Time's the Charm Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

Releasing open source code can be terrifying.

Why it might be worth dressing a bit nicer even when you don't have to. Zuckerberg's uniform FMGS episode on Integrity

Sometimes More Features & Toys Makes It Worse

Do you need to "protect" clients & developers from each other? Why is it that, in most agencies, there's never any direct communication between developers and clients? Thoughtbot Tighten

The Ultimate Recipe For Success and Winning is not what you might think. What really matters: doing good. Build and Launch Episode 27 This American Life about Economic Cults Multi-Level Marketing

You don't have the luxury to stagnate

The ideal project management tool, and what we use today at Tighten

Why Communication is the Most Important Thing

When should an employer "force" employees to use a tool? I mentioned "forcing" my employees to use PHPStorm in a podcast recently. What was I talking about?

Matt tries Soylent for the first time. Soylent Soylent Green My Year With Soylent EAS Whey Protein Powder Video version

My son joins me for the best episode of all time.

WatchMeCode Javascript expert Derick Bailey joins us to talk about why queues are the answer to every web application problem, ever. @derickbailey DerickBailey.com WatchMeCode RabbitMQ For Developers Bundle - use the discount code 5minutegeek for 20% off!

Sometimes our generalized understandings of groups of people are helpful, but more often then they're hurtful. How do we know which is which?

Many people's metrics on how to pick the tools they use is wrong. Don't be wrong.

We often use some external situation or justification to cover up what we don't really want to talk about it, and it's damaging our mental health and our relationships. We have to stop.

Microservices are great. But not always. Single-Page apps are great. But not always. RailsConf Keynote from DHH Bikeshed episode that I haven't listened to but was recommended to me about this topic

How I'm learning to ask good questions (which usually start with "Why"). Karani Jobs To Be Done Symposium Github Repo

It can be hard to find inspiration in your work. Sometimes it helps to be predictable--and some times it helps to switch everything up.

In product design, the "planners" need to figure out the plan before you start, and the "cowboys" just want to get coding. Wee need them both, and we need them to work together. Karani Confomo Gistlog Symposium Markedstyle Ryan Singer on Full-Stack Radio

Everyone's in love with remote work. So are we! But there are some big pains that come along with it. REMOTE Campfire Slack Sqwiggle Screenhero

Start your own podcast in under 5 minutes, take two The Real Five Minute Geek Show Blue Snowball Blue Yeti Simplecast

Wes Bos of "Sublime Text Power User" and "Command Line Power User" gives a quick introduction to supplementing your income in a non-skeezy way using passive income. WesBos.com @wesbos Sublime Text Power User Command Line Power User

Just Use Your Dang Name

The Mildly Alarming Podcast The Mildly Alarming Podcast - Episode 7 In which they introduce the podcast war The Mildly Alarming Podcast - Episode 8 In which they give the outro I played in the app That Podcast Episode 16 In which they talk about responsive redesigns Converting a Flattened PDF comp to HTML/CSS My screencast Converting the old Laravel.com to be responsive -- apparently disappeared forever? Why EMs? Confused about REM and EM?

Disagreeing with the Slack-naysayers in a controversial manner so more people will listen to my podcast

Talking about integrity--why it matters in tech, and why it doesn't mean what most people think it does.

How to keep your code neat, clean, easy to follow, and to draw nearer to the mythical "Self-documented" code

Why I work from a remote office instead of from home

Given my advice in the last episode, I'm introducing my open source project here VitalSigns Symposium Gistlog Confomo

When you have a really exciting idea at the top of your head, is it better to keep it secret or share it with everyone you know?

You may have some reasons in your head for why your web site isn't wrong. They're all wrong. LessAccounting AutoPilot

Talking about the MEAN stack and why Mongo & NoSQL make you work too hard MEAN Mongo Express Angular Node

How do you figure out which IDE/Editor is the best for you? Sublime Text PHPStorm Vim EMacs Atom Textmate IntelliJ

I write often at mattstauffer.co, and I've been trying to learn how to do it quickly and easily. I share some of my process in this episode. That Podcast 750words.com Mattstauffer.co

Three ways to give back to opens ource, including contributing code--and, in the midst, how to write a good pull request. My Laravel.com pull request A podcast episode about The Perfect Pull Request that I embarrassingly have not listened to yet

Often people will respond to someone saying they want more or different in a language/framework by saying, "If you don't like it, just leave!" Is that the right response?

Often folks look at tech conferences purely for what they can provide in terms of learning in sessions. But, there's a lot more to look at. PeersConf Laracon US Laracon Eu LessConf

When your code--or, more specifically, your code executing through a plugin or a framework--stops working, how do you debug it? There's a big difference between how junior and experience developers answer this question. Stack trace xDebug PHPStorm Mattstauffer.co - Extending Laravel's Application Youtube Link

What happens if the leader or leaders of my favorite framework/tool/etc. get hit by a bus? Angular 2.0 roadmap announcement Full-Stack Radio Episode 8 The Man With the Golden Voice, Sean Devine Batman.JS Youtube Link

Interviewing Mubash Iqbal, "Mubs", about his early success with Interviewed.io Mubs' Personal Web Site Mubs on Twitter Interviewed.io Interviewed.io at Product Hunt Interviewed.io at Hacker News Interviewed.io at Designer News Steve P. Young Interviewed.io on The Next Web Youtube Link

Asking an experienced entrepreneur, developer, and business owner for 5 minutes of his best advice for entrepreneurs. Steve Jackson One of Steve's most recent businesses, Telemachus Press Definition of P&L, Profit & Loss Statement Youtube Link

In part 2 of a 2-part series, we're reviewing the results of the great Twitter experiment. Five-Minute Geek Show on Twitter Twitter rules and best practices - Aggressive Following Youtube Link