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My name's Michael Richardson and I'm a software developer and developer community organizer.
I'm the Tech Lead for Kroger Digital's SEO team. As part of my job I'm privileged to mentor some great junior developers and provide leadership in the Kroger Customer Experience org.
I organize a variety of developer community events in the Cincinnati area. The most prominent are:
A list of content that I've really enjoyed or found particularly helpful.
Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard
This explains so much about being a beginning developer.
Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
Development requires an outrageous amount of learning. How do we keep up and get better at it? I have watched this over and over again. I take away something new every time.
How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead
The Immutable Laws of Software and Life
Joe Duffy's Midori Posts
Thoughts on writing an operating system entirely in managed code.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
This post opened my eyes to the complexities of text encoding. I've found it extremely helpful over the past few years.
UTC is enough for everyone... right?
Dates and times are a passion of mine and I found this blog post to be a great discussion of some of the complexities.
Ideology
Thorough discussion of type systems (dynamic vs. static) and their impact on testing.
Number of Programming Languages = 3
Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
The Talk on Talks
This talk was immensely helpful in planning for my first conference talk.
Speaker Starter Kit - Cory House
Collection of fantastic speaker resources
Laura Booz - An Ever-Fixed Mark: You, Your Child, and Shakespeare
Mr. Money Mustache
Want to get more enjoyment out of life and retire early? You need Mr. Money Mustache.
YNAB Blog
Great budget software. Great blog.
If you decide to sign up for the software, use my referral link 😎 🤓
The Richest Man in Babylon
Written in the 1920s, this book may be old but the lessons are just as valuable. This book changed my life financially.
A part of all you earn is yours to keep
Betterment
This is my preferred investing platform. Entirely goal-based, excellent financial advice.
Feel free to sign up with my referral link
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued - Patrick McKenzie
The canonical blog post on salary negotiation for developers. Read it now. Read it again every time you begin a job search. May be (monetarily) the most valuable blog post you ever read.
A 5 Minute Plea To Do - GaryVee
Stop thinking and planning to do the thing. Go. Do. The. Thing.
Be Patient and Keep Practicing
How do you get good at something? Do it every day, even it's just for 10 minutes.
Why online identities are smart career moves
React
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Laravel
A PHP framework for web artisans
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.
A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.
Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.
Some thing interesting about visualization, use data art
Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.
Facebook
We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.
Microsoft
Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.
Google
Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.
Alibaba
Alibaba Open Source for everyone
D3
Data-Driven Documents codes.
Tencent
China tencent open source team.
