Category: Dancing Engineer
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What Was Your Biggest Lesson From 2018?
A fellow Toastmaster wrote a piece about her biggest lessons learned in 2018 which I promptly forwarded. #transformation #change But then she turned it around on me. “Thank you for sharing K Rain Leander! Love to know – what was your biggest lesson from 2018?” ~ Sangbreeta Moitra And, yup, I have been mulling over…
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Gather Round, Kiddies – Mama Has A BedTime Story
Once upon a time Papa had a wonderful opportunity to work in the Netherlands and Mama could work from anywhere in the world, so the Leander Family moved to Groningen.
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Do All The Things Right Now
Around this time of year, a few of us are thinking about what we might pledge to do differently in the new year. “Starting next year, I will…” go to the gym regularly eat healthy drop kilos lower body fat get super fit study more programming languages build some apps in said programming languages throw…
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Who Down With OCP?!?
YEAH YOU KNOW ME! I went to six conferences in forty eight days and that’s just a bit overwhelming. I had this abstract idea that it was over the course of the around eight weeks or so but then I looked at the actual dates and pulled it up on a calendar calculator and now…
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Exploring All The Local Cafes of Haren
Okay, so this may seem like more of an advertisement piece, but it’s where I am and that’s more important than maintaining my I Have Totally Not Sold Out reputation. But who are we kidding – I’d totally sell out, given the opportunity. And so would you. Ahem. This post certainly got dark quickly, didn’t…
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Who Publishes On Wednesdays, I Mean Come On
Ideally this posts are written in batches and then scheduled to be published at future dates and times but I’m SO NOT THERE YET. Also? Don’t try to write while also letting the television play if you’re Rain Leander cause you’ll be CONSTANTLY DISTRACTED. I mean, some people can do it? But not I. Focus,…
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These Titles Are Supposed To Be Short
The original title of this post was “Wherein Rain Schedules Out The Next Few Weeks of Blogging per Adam DuVander And Then Freaks The Fuck Out (Just a Bit)” but SEO #amirite I’m sitting in my local bakery thinking about three things – routines, writing, and identity and wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what…
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Figuring This Shit Out
One of the things I’m Working On Right Now ™ is this whole blogging thing and social media and becoming an influencer and thought leadership and how many more buzz words can I fit into one boring sentence. #CanIGetAnAMEN And part of figuring out some of those things is blogging regularly again, so here we…
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My Notes From Adam DuVander’s Developer Content Marketing Workshop At DevRelCon London
I know what you’re thinking right now. “It’s been umpteen weeks since you’ve written on this blog and THIS is what you’re going to write about?!?” Yes, I totally used quotes because THAT is EXACTLY what you’re thinking. Yeah, that’s right, THIS is what I’m writing about – so sit back, buck up, and get…
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How To Pass The Torch Without Dropping All The Balls
Spoiler Alert: communication is key. I’m putting together an abstract with a couple of fellow #DevRel liaisons on how we managed to pass (and drop!) responsibility of an open source community. We’ll submit to a couple of upcoming conferences over the next year and see what happens. Cause you never know until you try. We’ll…
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So Then What’s Next?
Okay, so I’m back at work one hundred percent which means a couple of next steps are happening within the next six to twelve months. Career-wise. It’s time to apply to CFPs again. A few in particular are kickass / relevant / on my radar / wouldn’t it be super keen to do / omgomgomg.…
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Making It Up As I Go Along
P is super sick today, I’m working from downstairs AGAIN because connectivity is absolute ASS at our new house, and I’m officially off of sick leave / maternity ramp up. No big deal. Okay, but seriously, can we take a second to celebrate that? OMG I’M FINALLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AT WORK AGAIN IT’S BEEN…