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thoughts, guides & lessons learned

A collection of things I've written about developer productivity, AI, accessibility, and building a sustainable career in tech.

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Book Summary: The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Jan 16, 2023
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Book Summary: Don't Make Me Think
Dec 19, 2022
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Learning Game Development
Dec 18, 2022
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Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
Oct 25, 2022
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A Recap of GopherCon 2022
Oct 9, 2022
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Moving from a Start Up to a Big Tech Company
Sep 6, 2022
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MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Sep 1, 2022
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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Jul 31, 2022
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Book Summary: The Pragmatic Programmer
Feb 14, 2022
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How to Read Better: Read Faster, Get More Insights, and Retain Them
Feb 11, 2022
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Book Summary: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Feb 5, 2022
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How to Be More Productive with Todoist
Aug 26, 2021
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Building a Personal Project Backend API with .NET Core, DynamoDB, Docker, and Heroku
Sep 10, 2019
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Book Summary: Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Sep 3, 2019
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The Top 5 Best Software Engineering Podcasts for New Engineers
Aug 20, 2019

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brittany ellich.

Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. Writing about developer productivity, AI, and building a sustainable career in tech.

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