Looking for a #ruby job?

Chime is hiring directly into my team, which handles a wide variety of Ruby-related developer experience jobs within Chime Engineering.

https://careers.chime.com/en/jobs/7325921002/software-engineer-ruby/

We're looking for somebody who isn't a senior developer, at least not yet.

100% remote available (US/Canada).

I'd love to answer your questions, or you can apply now!

(Apologies to REM)

Oh cloud, it's bigger
It's bigger so you
Use Kubernetes
The lengths admin will go to
To scale their enterprise
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the Docker
That's me on the cloud host
Learning Kubernetes
Trying to launch my apps on you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't set it up

#kubernetes #k8s #SongParody

The longer I work, the more I become convinced that the main five superpowers you can have as an engineer are:

a) Empathy for customers – their experience is all that matters

b) Understanding UX expectations. Eg the iOS HIG, including a11y

c) Forming a mind map of the software you work on, so you can navigate and predict the outcome of changes

d) Where debt is, so you can make improvements and spot risk

e) How to use the above to "get to yes" so you're not blocking, you're enabling

A friend asked me "how do i get amazing frontend chops?"

I answered off the top of my head:
- Go implement some challenging designs
- Go sit with a designer who really cares about their work, and iterate like mad in parallel with them.
- Animate some complex shit.
- Drive your browser with only a screen reader for a week.
- Go work on implementing data tables with 100,000 rows.
- Oh, and try using the web at 400% zoom for a while. Fix everything that's busted on your site when you do.

(Add your own! There's so many great ways to learn the expertise required)