@jimleonardo

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I am a hands-on software development leader with 20+ years of experience. My side projects are focused on blogging about and playing with tech.

Find my writings at both https://www.jimsrules.com (software development topics) and https://www.jimleonardo.com (fiction and anything else).

Tech & Software Dev Websitehttps://www.jimsrules.com/
Fiction Websitehttps://jimleonardo.com
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jimleonardo/
jimleonardoApr 6, 2025
Rocky Lhotka 🤘🖖Apr 5, 2025
I drove into town today. Compared to last week, the number of #trump signs is maybe 10%. Looks like the vast majority of people either don't support him anymore, or are embarrassed to acknowledge their support all of a sudden.
jimleonardoApr 6, 2025
JeffApr 5, 2025
It was good to see so many fellow minded people out and about today at the Austin #HandsOff protest. My eyes, ears and throat are now full of oak pollen, but it was worth it.
jimleonardoApr 6, 2025
Andy Marfia 📸Apr 6, 2025

Impressive turnout today in #Chicago.

An estimated 30,000 people joined the Chicago edition of the "Hands Off” day of action. https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/05/massive-crowds-march-downtown-against-trump-musk-at-hands-off-protest/

Massive Crowds March Downtown Against Trump, Musk At ‘Hands Off’ Protest

An estimated 30,000 people joined the Chicago edition of the "Hands Off" day of action, which saw communities across the country protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's cuts to government and striping of rights.

Block Club Chicago
jimleonardoApr 6, 2025

Thousands showed up today for the Hands Off Rally at Bellingham City Hall.
Here's some of the signs.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n4odrn7n659980bbezwi5/Hands-Off-Indivisible-Bellingham.mp4?rlkey=n7j6rp3ditacdhaz7riyc9qfz&raw=1

#handsoff #democracy #impeachtrump #bellingham #whatcom

jimleonardoJan 29, 2025

https://jimsrules.com/2025/01/28/return-to-office-2003

A quick post of my own story on going through a “return” to office mandate - 22 years ago.

Return to Office - 2003

Photo by Eduardo Alexandre on Unsplash(https://unsplash.com/@eddalexandre) on Unsplash. A quick post on my own story on going through a “return” to office mandate - 22 years ago.

Jim’s Rules
jimleonardoJan 29, 2025

https://jimsrules.com/2025/01/27/why-dont-i-like-your-resume
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Why don't I like your resume?

You hit all the points on the job description. Why aren't you getting a call? It's not the ATS filtering you out. It is not the TA team. It is one of the hiring managers, maybe myself. How do you "get by" me?

In this article, I hope to help a little by taking a swing at explaining what I think when I review resumes. As always: Warning- Opinions (and a first draft) Ahead!

Why don’t I like your resume?

Photo by Van Tay Media (https://unsplash.com/@vantaymedia) on Unsplash. You hit all the points on the job description. Why aren’t you getting a call? It’s not the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) filtering you out. It is not the Talent Acquisition (TA) team. It is one of the hiring managers, maybe myself. How do you “get by” me? I know creating a resume is stressful, you get conflicting advice, and you might be doing it when you are out of work and all that stress and contradiction will try to overwhelm you. In this article, I hope to help a little by taking a swing at explaining what I think when I review resumes. As always: Warning- Opinions Ahead!

Jim’s Rules
jimleonardoNov 29, 2024

While messing around a little bit with prompts in Bing Copilot, I decided to ask it to create a programming language that was easy to code and hard to debug. What did I get? The results were surprisingly unsurprising.

https://jimsrules.com/2024/11/29/ai-generated-programming-language-experiment

AI Generated Programming Language Experiment

Coding Š 2024 James Leonardo. All Rights Reserved. PF Videotext Font by Panos Vassiliou While messing around a little bit with prompts in Bing Copilot today, I decided to asked it to create a programming language that was easy to code and hard to debug. What did I get? The results were surprisingly unsurprising.

Jim’s Rules
jimleonardoNov 21, 2024

Thought: If you’ve got a position listed on your resume that says “Software Development Team Lead”, the description of the role should start out with things you did as a leader.

A little more here: https://jimsrules.com/2024/10/30/thoughts-developer-lead-resumes

#resume

Thoughts: Developer Lead Resumes

Photo by Van Tay Media (https://unsplash.com/@vantaymedia) on Unsplash. Thought: If you’ve got a position listed on your resume that says “Software Development Team Lead”, the description of the role should start out with things you did as a leader.

Jim’s Rules
jimleonardoJul 6, 2024

Taking a pause from the series at https://jimsrules.com on things to think about when becoming a leader, I took a morning to update my Expressur basic arithmetic library so I can test claims that .NET 8 had significant performance improvements over .NET 7.

Short answer? Add me to the people who say “apparently yes”, at least for pure C# code.

https://jimsrules.com/2024/07/06/is-dotnet-8-faster-than-dotnet-7

#csharp #dotnet

Jim’s Rules

Warning: Opinions ahead! I am building Jim’s Rules to share my thoughts about technology, teamwork, and leadership in software development. Viewpoints expressed are my own and not those of my current or any prior employer.

Jim’s Rules
Show threadjimleonardoMay 21, 2024
@flowchainsenseisocial when I named it I was being somewhat tongue in cheek. What it became is “rules” in the sense of a “usually valid generalization” rather than a “prescribed guide for conduct or action”. I.e more like the Pareto Principle than the rules of football.