I have watched, read, written and took part in the great resignation (joining a new company 6 months ago remotely, only seeing my new colleagues in person for the first time last week. The software development world has changed and overall developers have benefited. Software development has increased, demand for developers has gone up and developers have moved more for better jobs. What happens next? Will developers continue to move jobs at higher levels or will it settle down? Will companies change and put more effort and money into keeping developers, instead of focusing most of their efforts into hiring replacements? The stages of the great developer resignation Below are the stages of the great developer resignation Remote working — meeting overload, burnout Increase in remote...

   PEORIA, AZ — The San Diego Padres announced today they have extended Major League Spring Training invitations to 24 players. Among those 24 players are 10 minor league free agents that will be new to the organization, including infielders CJ Hinojosa and Domingo Leyba, outfielders Jose Azocar, Luis Liberato, Nomar Mazara, Thomas Milone and Trayce Thompson, and right-handers Jordan Brink, Angel Felipe and Heath Fillmyer. Right-handers Carlos Belen, Nick Burdi, Tyler Higgins and Aaron Northcraft, left-handers Daniel Camarena and José Castillo, infielder Aderlin Rodriguez and catcher Webster Rivas also return to the Padres organization for the 2022...

   The most interesting segment of Apple’s March 8 Event dealt with the M1 Ultra chips — plural intended and explained below. Today, we’ll focus on what this latest member of the M1 family means, on what it portends for future Apple products. A brief history: the M1 chip was announced at Apple’s June 2020 WWDC (it’s yearly developers’ conference) with an overall theme and several promises. The new member of the Apple Silicon family (the Wikipedia article provides valuable perspective) set a tone that was to become common to all future announcements: More Power, Less Watts. In practical terms, your M1-equipped laptop would be faster and its battery would last longer — when compared to Intel-powered devices, of course. This came with one shorter term...

   The other day, I finally decided to have a free session to discuss my new book, Making Numbers Count, with readers. It was small and very informal — a group of people discussing numbers, asking about different ways to present data at work. Twenty minutes in, a woman, Lauren asked a question about an upcoming presentation. “I only have one slide, but I have oodles of data. How do I choose what to put on the slide?” It’s just the kind of question I spent the past few years researching and writing about. I had a few slides ready to screen share on the topic. I had studies to back it up. I had some wonderful examples to use that never made it into the book, and was really excited to share these with her. Helping people answer questions just like that was one of the...

   This week, in a Variety profile, Kim Kardashian thought she was giving women of the world invaluable advice on how to succeed in business. “I have the best advice for women in business,” Kardashian told Variety. “Get your fucking ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” Unfortunately, this advice was not taken kindly by a majority of women who are overworked, underpaid and, in many ways, simply exhausted. So yes, Kim — nobody wants to work because we are all tired of working every single day, for people like her, who get to reap the profits of our labor. Kardashian’s advice isn’t only ignorant, it’s blatantly out of touch with the current situation of women across the world. Women work much more than men on average...

   Let me paint a picture of what e-learning days in my house look like. We found out last night that this will be an e-learning day because of cold weather. So this morning, the kids are on their second breakfast by 9 am and they’re keyed up and itching to get started. By now they’ve caught on to the fact that e-learning actually means they’ll have a very small amount of work and then a full day of play. Both my sixth grader and my third grader see e-learning as a small hurdle to be jumped before reaching the promised land of unlimited Minecraft and movies. Even though we have tight limits on screen time on normal days, e-learning days are not normal days. My partner and I will be working, so typical limits are suspended for everyone’s survival. The kids will be...