How to Win Friends and Influence People Book Notes

2024/07/18 Justin Hammond 8 minutes Books

This was a fantastic read. Here are some of the things I learned: Fundamental Techniques to Handling PeoplePrinciple 1: Don't criticize, condemn, or complainIt is foolish to scold. People have enough trouble overcoming their own By criticizing, you won' ...

The One Line Traefik/Docker Config That Broke My Routing

2024/04/20 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Software

I've used Traefik to route traffic to my Docker containers for years. For years I haven't had a problem with this. Containers that needed to connect to a database would run on their own "network" so the DB could talk to the UI. There would then be a globa ...

Do Not Hold the Picture Button Down on iPhone for Videos, You'll Regret It

2024/01/13 Justin Hammond 2 minutes Tips & Guides

I learned a thing today, maybe helpful to some: you can take a video on your iPhone by holding the camera button, it’ll switch to a video - this I knew. The problem is it shoots said video in the 4:3 aspect ratio which is terrible. This is the same aspe ...

Book Notes: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

2023/11/21 Justin Hammond 8 minutes Books

Leadership is about enabling everyone around you to do their best workAs a leader, you affect people's lives in targetable ways that you see reflected back on the faces in front of youCaring is vital to this role“People are not pure functions, they have ...

Lessons Learned Running a Space Simulator

2023/10/22 Justin Hammond 11 minutes Stories

This is a repost of an article I wrote years ago that has since been removed from its initial location. I recently attended a space simulator at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center in Pleasant Grove with some friends after hearing about the amazing experi ...

Book Notes: Rich Dad Poor Dad

2023/07/27 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Books

Broke is temporary, poor is eternalAffirming you’re rich is a big deal. You can have a rich life without having loads of moneyMoney comes and goes, but education about money is powerfulLesson 1: The Rich Don’t Work for MoneyYou can only change what yo ...

Harvey Deadlock Issues - Making Docker, uWSGI, and Nginx Play Nice

2023/05/26 Justin Hammond 9 minutes Software

Exploring the ProblemIt’s pretty standard to writeup a postmortem after stuff breaks in production. It helps to identify and analyze what went wrong, how it was fixed, and how it can be avoided in the future. Join me on my 1.5 year journey of fixing a n ...

Book Notes: Leadership and Self Deception

2023/05/04 Justin Hammond 4 minutes Books

Don’t treat people as objects, don’t view them as threats, nuisances, or problems“Get out of the box”, which is, viewing people as peopleLearn people’s names and faces, it humanizes themPeople don’t respond to what you do as much as who you ar ...

Book Notes: Software Engineering at Google

2022/11/02 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Books

“A programming task is often an act of individual creation, but a software engineering task is a team effort.lHyrums Law: “With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of yo ...

I Built an iOS Game (Crazy Color Clash) - Here's What I Learned

2022/09/17 Justin Hammond 10 minutes Software

Where Can I Get the AppCrazy Color Clash is available on the iOS App Store, download it today for free!How the Project Got StartedI've dreamed of publishing something on the App Store for years. Being an Apple fanboy, I've long been downloading apps, cons ...

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