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What I've Learned From Failure
Reginald Braithwaite
At either end of the educational spectrum, there lies a Hacker Class.
Reg “raganwald” Braithwaite is proof that somewhere, a combinatory forest is missing its Idiot Bird. His interests include constructing surreal numbers, deconstructing hopelessly egocentric nulls, and celebrating the joy of programming. This is a space for ideas that are not code-centric.
Reginald Braithwaite is the author of JavaScript Allongé, CoffeeScript Ristretto and the programming-specific blog raganwald.com. He has shipped with PagerDuty, GitHub, Unspace, Sitraka, and others.
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His other works are on GitHub and Leanpub. His email is reg@braythwayt.com, although most of it falls into the spam filter black hole. He is @raganwald on Mastodon. He checks his LinkedIn infrequently.
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2015
- What I Learned from Blowing An Interview
- Thank You
- Names are a problem worth solving
- Reporting a Vulnerability
- Thanks, Reg
- Grammar. Matters.
- Preparing for a Technical Interview
- Guys picking up nickels off of railway tracks
- On Nitpicking
- How I Write Books with GitHub and Leanpub
- Unlearning Helplessness
- Write for Yourself, Rewrite for Others
selected older writing
- Why You Need A Degree To Work For BigCo
- High Anxiety
- Optimism
- The Emperor's Old Clothes, by C.A.R. Hoare
- Write
- I don't hire unlucky people
- Hello, my name is Reginald, and I am a Socialist
- The little super-dense singularity of the future
- Programming is a Pop Culture
- Raganwald's Nifty Fifty
- Cargo Cults and Interview Questions
- A Woman's Story
- Software's Receding Hairline
- The Programmer's Dilemma