pedrofornaza

Asking questions and paying attention. "How this works", "why that", "why now", "what if".

Most people like to share. They feel validated and are genuinely happy to tell you why they did "that good thing" or how they got the result they got.

If they dont want to answer your questions, you also learned something: dont be that guy! hahaha

"Ownership" always brings the debate about compensation and workload. "Im not the owner, im not earning like one, why would i have ownership?".

They all miss the point. Having "ownership" is caring like its yours. Making decisions that make sense, and you would do in yours. Your answer is perfect!

Ofcourse you should not have the "minimal effort police" in mind, but you also should not work your balls off for nothing.

Been there, done that. For me it was mostly measuring me with the wrong metric. We've been taught the whole career about deliverables, etc. When you become a manager, the metric is different.

I always think im doing a hell of a job if my team can just focus, get shit done and leave happy on the end of the day.

The best managers seems invisible and looks like they aren't doing shit.

Cheers bro, just keep improving and its gonna be ok.

The fact that you are here, asking about how to do better is already a very good sign. Congrats.

You may feel like not adding much value because you may be measuring yourself by the wrong metric. If you are / was a software developer, its kinda easy to see your contribution, you just pull the git log. When you are leading, its way harder to notice. Thats the jump to the soft skills.

I like to think soft skills are called this way because they have a soft touch. You cant really define what they are, but you know when you are not having it, much like clean code.

It seems like you know where they can develop and get better. Managing them is helping them achieve it. Help them, guide them, nurture them. And mostly important, ask them where you can help.

Being the manager is not being the smarter, just the facilitator. You make thinks smooth. Managing is good when you cant see and it feels it does not exists, but, you know things will be worse if the managers are out.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz and Ray Dalio's Principles can give you very good ideas.

Ive always though about something like a project planning. They have to submit the project (proposals) before election and once elected, update their status, giving feedback later. And maybe even a kind of point systems, where if they dont get a minimum, they are out and we elect another one for the position.

Something like this: I want to make illegal to ride bikes. So i have to draft the law, maybe meet someone against and in favor, redo if needed, pass by review, submit it to the congress (or whatever), work on the "comments" made at the discussion, etc.

Each of these steps are kind of "taks" in the sense of the project, and so, trackable. All can be done through technology and can even have some kind of automatic test of acceptance. And it can be acessible to everyone.

Anyway, it is just an idea. Never thought about that very deeply, and even the example may be wrong in steps haha.

Yes, it happens to me also. Sometimes is just frustrating. :/

Most of the projects uses docker, which i use to develop my own projects anyway, so, i dont need to install different dependencies or make my own pc as anything else. I just use it as regular.

As a dev and company owner, i would say its optional. Ive always like to use my own devices, most of the time. Sometimes i receive some money because of that, but it was just a bonus. I did because i wanted to.

To be fair, i didnt even thought about HN API. I was doing some tests to learn about the desktop notifications and did the "fast way".

Anyway, you will have to read it all but it can narrow a little bit.

Hey man!

https://gist.github.com/pedrofornaza/6b71569972de0e2bfa3c775...

I did this sometime ago. Its probabbly not working 100% but may help you. :)

Its as script to run on background (cron or alike) and raise desktop notifications when articles with the keywords you put in the script.

I had several ideas for this but i just stopped developing for lack of time.

Let me know if it interests you.

With this, i will probabbly not access hacker news again haha. Your list is basically what i search for in here.

Keep the good job :)

I dont think its a good idea discuss what frameworks to use.

I usually choose the better framework FOR MY PROBLEM. If i need something lightweight, or reliability, performance, etc.

ZF and Symfony are too big for small projects, maybe Slim is to little to a medium/big project, etc.

I think you adopt a PHP framework for your problem, not for coding in general.

What you do in your job? What is kick ass for you?

We can do a lot of things to kick ass. For kicking ass on the job, the first one for me is know what are you doing and why.

The second is participating. Know what is going on, what people is doing, make suggestions. Participate.

But, for kicking ass coding, anything can replace the experience. So, read, write, read, write.