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2019: Grit and Intensity

Jeff Whelpley — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:04:16 +0000

I know most people like to lay out their goals at this time of the year, but I decided this year I am going to do things a bit differently. No doubt I have goals, but after several years of setting and reflecting on my goals, I’ve realized a few things: Most people (myself included) …

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Lean UX

Jeff Whelpley — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:40:40 +0000

I have learned a lot over the past 5 years working at GetHuman, but as far as product development goes, this past year has been like drinking from a fire hose. Besides launching two new products, Swish and VendorSmith, as well as working on several others that haven’t come out yet, I have spent a …

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Introducing…SketchPoints!

Jeff Whelpley — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:31:06 +0000

About 6 months ago, Nathan Walker and I got accepted to speak at the biggest Angular conference of the year, ng-conf. Our talk that got accepted was called Super-Powered, Server-Rendered Progressive Native Apps. The idea was to talk about the best practice for building a JavaScript app that targets multiple platforms (i.e. iOS, Android, the web, …

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Angular vs React

Jeff Whelpley — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:23:13 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about Angular recently as I prepare for my ng-conf 2018 talk, Super-Powered, Server-Rendered Progressive Native Apps. This blog post is a by product of that thinking. I recently posted an answer on Quora for the question “Which one is better: React + Redux vs Angular 2?” and I wanted …

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You Can’t Read Minds

Jeff Whelpley — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:03:47 +0000

It is extremely common for all of us to assume we understand how other people think. We may consciously admit that we don’t know for sure, but in order to function as human beings we do have to make certain assumptions. For example, when you a run into a longtime friend, you may assume that …

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The 4 Characteristics of Highly Effective Managers

Jeff Whelpley — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:35:42 +0000

I originally posted this in 2011 while I was managing 25 developers at Wells Fargo. The pop culture references are a little dated, but the core messages are still relevant. “Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too…” – Bill Lumbergh Bad …

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Tech Debt Ceiling

Jeff Whelpley — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:18:47 +0000

I originally wrote this post in 2011 before I accidentally deleted my entire website. I am re-posting it now because both the analogy I use (i.e. a debt ceiling) and the underlying issue (technical debt) are even more relevant than ever today. There has been a lot of talk recently about the U.S. Debt Ceiling. …

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The Root of All Evil (in software)

Jeff Whelpley — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:02:26 +0000

This is another post I originally wrote in 2011 before I accidentally deleted my website. I had to deal with a log of legacy code at Wells Fargo at that time, but tbh all developers struggle with technical debt to a degree regardless of how modern their stack. What are you scared of? Snakes? Spiders? …

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The 4 Characteristics of Highly Effective Developers

Jeff Whelpley — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:04:14 +0000

This was a post I wrote in 2011 that hit #1 on Hacker News. I accidentally deleted all my old posts at some point, so I am bringing it back. Some of the references are a bit dated, but most of the core messages still ring true today. “We may be very busy, we may be …

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Making Money (at a consumer-focused startup)

Jeff Whelpley — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:20:22 +0000

Last summer I had a conversation with someone who works at one of the big tech internet giants. I mentioned that we were worried at my startup about the profit margins for one of our new products. He paused and then said something to the effect of “why do you care about making money?”. The …

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