Jason C. McDonald

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Jason C. McDonald

Dec 21 '19

Dead Simple Python: Working with Files

#python #beginners

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 1 '19

Three Ground Rules for Sane Project Planning

#management #coding #project #planning

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 6 '19

How To Become A Developer -- Part 1: Coding Skills

#beginners #career

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7 min read

Jason C. McDonald

Feb 16 '19

The Rules of Debugging

#coding #culture #humor

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 24 '18

Clean, DRY, SOLID Spaghetti

#oop #coding #culture #design

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Jason C. McDonald

Sep 30

Ten Principles of Critique

#culture #communication #community #codereview

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Stop using if else

It's okay to go looking for better solutions than just a chai...

Oct 16

Getting Jobs and Internships in College: Seizing Off Campus Opportunities

Wow! Finally, an article on this topic that's actually solid ...

Aug 12

I'm an Expert in Memory Management & Segfaults, Ask Me Anything!

Off the top of my head, I don't know of any practical ways to...

Jul 3

I'm an Expert in Memory Management & Segfaults, Ask Me Anything!

In almost all cases, it's very hard to debug a segfault witho...

Jul 2

I'm an Expert in Memory Management & Segfaults, Ask Me Anything!

First step w/ these is always to compile the program with deb...

Jun 23

Should You Really be Coding in Dark Mode?

It's a contrast thing. I have as much trouble reading pure w...

Jun 10

Should You Really be Coding in Dark Mode?

Dark mode is, in fact, sometimes very helpful for comprehensi...

Jun 9

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

Jul 12

Episode 9: Sneeze Decor

#speaking #communities #mentorship #programming

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

Jul 8

Episode 8: More Power To You

#management #mentorship #leadership #teams

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

Jun 16

Episode 7: Brain Scans and Networking

#datascience #python #career #ux

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

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Episode 6: Mentorship with Cheese Sauce

#teaching #learning #programming #mentorship

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Jason C. McDonald

May 21

Six Things You Thought Senior Devs Did (But We Don't)

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

May 3

Episode 5: Bojan Reads the Documentation

#agile #scrum #management

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

Apr 19

Episode 4: Attack of the Fresh Fruit

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Jason C. McDonald for The Bug Hunters Café

Apr 8

Episode 3: To Boldly Debug

#debugging #python #devops #sre

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Jason C. McDonald

Mar 24

News: Call to remove RMS from FSF

#news #inclusion

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Jason C. McDonald

Dec 15 '20

Basics and Variables

#javascript #devjournal

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Jason C. McDonald

Dec 11 '20

Hello World

#javascript #devjournal

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Jason C. McDonald

Dec 11 '20

I'm Learning Javascript...WHY?

#devjournal #javascript

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Jason C. McDonald

Nov 28 '20

Type Literal Tabs Anywhere

#linux #tooling

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Jason C. McDonald

Sep 15 '20

Writing Zenlike Python (Talk)

#python #beginners

1 min read

Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

Jul 7 '20

How to rename 'master' in an organization

#devops #inclusion #git

4 min read

Jason C. McDonald for EuroPython

Jul 6 '20

Ask Guido van Rossum a question!

#python

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 6 '20

5 Ways to Retain Open Source Contributors

#opensource #culture #projectmanagement

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5 min read

Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

Jun 29 '20

Goodbye Master, Hello...What?

#devops #culture #inclusion #git

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Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

Jun 29 '20

Development Log: One Month In

#python #contributorswanted #hackathon #gamedev

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Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

Jun 12 '20

Development Log: All About Structure

#python #gamedev #hackathon #contributorswanted

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Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

May 26 '20

Development Log: Planning a Game

#contributorswanted #hackathon #python #gamedev

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Jason C. McDonald

May 25 '20

How to Apologize

#culture #triplebyte

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Jason C. McDonald

May 20 '20

Are you a ladder or a roadblock?

#career #culture #diversity

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Jason C. McDonald

May 16 '20

Windows and Linux: A Sane Discussion

#discuss #healthydebate

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Jason C. McDonald for MousePaw Media

Apr 30 '20

GAME MODE 2020: Building a Game in One Month

#contributorswanted #hackathon #python #gamedev

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Jason C. McDonald

Apr 1 '20

Debugging with SQrL

#jokes

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Jason C. McDonald

Feb 1 '20

Pair Programming: Dog Edition

#jokes

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Jason C. McDonald

Jan 29 '20

Social Lifespan of Posts

#discuss #meta

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Jason C. McDonald

Jan 14 '20

Turning Bugs Into Features

#healthydebate #debugging #discuss

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Jason C. McDonald

Jan 8 '20

Socks

#watercooler

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Jason C. McDonald

Dec 30 '19

Introducing: Timecard

#showdev #python

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Jason C. McDonald

Nov 30 '19

The Use-Case Paradox

#coding #philosophy

1 min read

Jason C. McDonald

Nov 7 '19

8 Ways to Be More Professional

#career #beginners

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Jason C. McDonald

Nov 5 '19

Python SnakeBytes: Unpacking

#python #coding

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 31 '19

What's Your Costume?

#watercooler #discuss

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 28 '19

10 Skills of a Professional Author

#writing

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 24 '19

A Day In The Life Of A Writer

#writing

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 21 '19

Python SnakeBytes: The Walrus Operator

#python #coding

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 19 '19

Has Stack Overflow Become An Antipattern?

#culture

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Jason C. McDonald

Oct 13 '19

Beware Counterfeit No Starch Books from Amazon!

#news #books

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Jason C. McDonald

Sep 6 '19

Compiled! An Unobfuscated Glossary

#programming #coding #compiling #building

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Jason C. McDonald

Sep 1 '19

What Is An "Interpreted" Language?

#healthydebate #discuss

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 30 '19

Introducing #devjournal

#devjournal #meta

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 22 '19

Stealing Isn't "Sharing"

#culture #ethics

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 20 '19

Let's Get Clever #2: Spades

#challenge #fun #coding #programming

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 13 '19

Let's Get Clever #1: Fibonacci Sequence

#challenge #fun #coding #programming

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 12 '19

The Dark Side Of The Magic

#career #beginners #programming

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 7 '19

Dead Simple Python: Lambdas, Decorators, and Other Magic

#python #beginners #functional

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 6 '19

How To Become A Developer -- Part 4: Recommended Reading

#beginners #career

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 6 '19

How To Become A Developer -- Part 3: People Skills

#beginners #career

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 6 '19

How To Become A Developer -- Part 2: Non-Technical Skills

#beginners #career

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 3 '19

I've Trained Programming Interns For 6+ Years, Ask Me Anything!

#ama #coding #career #beginners

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 2 '19

Updated #beginner Tag Guidelines

#beginners #meta

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Jason C. McDonald

Aug 1 '19

Dead Simple Python: Generators and Coroutines

#python #beginners #oop #functional

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 23 '19

The Gear I Use

#mygear #productivity #developertools

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 22 '19

Dead Simple Python (An Announcement)

#python #beginners

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 17 '19

Updated #opensource Tag Guidelines

#opensource #meta

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Jason C. McDonald

Jun 26 '19

How Not To Handle Bug Reports

#culture #coding #issuetracking

12 min read

Jason C. McDonald

Mar 8 '19

A Lead Developer's Tips on Diversity

#shecodedally #management #diversity

8 min read

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