Leon Adato

Time Data Series: Working With PHP Zmanim

Calculations you can't get with built-in PHP tools because there are so many ways to calculate the same religiously significant moment.

March 21, 2024

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Another Trick To Find Remote Jobs

Prove you're the right person for the job AND underscore the inherently remote nature of the work. It gives hiring managers the ammunition they need to make the argument.

March 11, 2024

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What’s a Resume For?

A resume is not a loving retrospective of your work history. A resume serves EXACTLY one purpose: to entice the recipient to call you for an interview.

March 8, 2024

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Time Data Series: Getting Started With PHP Zmanim

An explanation and exploration of concepts and techniques for calculating “Jewish" times as well as using the PHP Zmanim library.

March 7, 2024

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“Do You Have Any Questions for Me?”

A grab bag of questions you can ask during an interview that help you understand important things about the work, the manager, and the company.

March 6, 2024

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Culture, Community, Creation, Calling

If you are looking for your next job, do yourself a favor and take a moment to think about your fandoms, favorites, and things that tickle your fancy.

March 5, 2024

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Setting Up a WordPress Test Environment With wp-env

Developing in WordPress is challenging enough without also slogging through figuring out how to set up a viable test environment.

January 3, 2024

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What I Learned About Salary Negotiation from Kym Possible

As tech practitioners, we need to build and maintain our core skills. But we don’t need to spend precious time learning about salary negotiation.

December 12, 2023

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Sometimes It Is Who You Know

Apply for any job that looks interesting, but also understand the relative value of a cold application versus a referral.

December 4, 2023

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Hello Woo. Writing Your First Script Using the Woocommerce API

A step-by-step guide to your first “hello woo” implementation using the WooCommerceAPI.

November 27, 2023

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Should I Start My Job Search Now?

It’s never a bad time to look around the airplane and check where the exits are located, where the parachutes are stored, and other things I learned about the job search.

November 24, 2023

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Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around

Helping us understand what users are experiencing with an application, monitoring is an undeniable game-change in organizations willing to embrace and use it.

November 22, 2023

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Lessons From a Six-Month Job Search

This article presents a reflection on my job search and the state of the job market. With some lessons I’ve picked up along the way.

November 21, 2023

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The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023

Folks go to All Things Open to be together, show their support of open source, and glean every last bit of knowledge they can.

November 2, 2023

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Making the Leap From Old-School Monitoring to Modern O11y

Modern observability techniques and tools have finally provided IT practitioners with the ability to attain the point of view of the application we always wanted.

June 12, 2023

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What ChatGPT Needs Is Context

Like the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the internet, AI-driven LLM tools are likely to change HOW we do our work, but not the fact that humans will still be the ones doing the work in the first place.

May 26, 2023

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What “The Rings of Power” Taught Me About a Career in Tech (Part 4)

This article is the fourth and final installment of a discussion on how I found lessons for life and work in tech within pop culture.

March 30, 2023

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Driving Isn’t Like Riding; Building Isn’t Like Using

It took a driving lesson with my son to put into perspective the differences between using and creating. Read more about my experience.

March 30, 2023

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What “The Rings of Power” Taught Me About a Career in Tech: Part 2

In the second part of this “The Rings of Power” article, readers will receive more information about what this series has taught me about working in tech.

March 27, 2023

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What “The Rings of Power” Taught Me About a Career in Tech

In Part One of this series, the author discusses how he found lessons for his life and work in tech within pop culture. Stay tuned for more!

March 23, 2023

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Creating 'Crap' Faster Isn't an Improvement

ChatGPT is a calculator, not a creator. It helps get to a better answer if you're not good at writing or coding. But it won't tell you what to write or code.

March 14, 2023

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Pretty Data All in Neat Rows

How to take "flat" (i.e., columnar) JSON data and turn it into row-based information using the jq utility and a little ingenuity.

March 14, 2023

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Your Pi-Hole Is a Rich Source of Data

Exploring how to collect custom JSON API metrics using Pi-Hole.

March 4, 2023

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Mind the Gap

Discovering how to convert non-standard data multiple ways; and also noting that often this isn't needed. What's more important is to check assumptions.

March 2, 2023

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Develop a Sense of Code

One of the questions that comes up a lot is something like, "Are we at the point where everyone in IT needs to learn to code?"

May 18, 2022

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Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’

Programming == magic. In the old 70's series, you can see similarities to software development techniques, methodologies, and approaches.

April 25, 2022

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Making the Case for Observability to Your Boss

The effort of learning how to effectively make the case for observability is worth every minute of time and every ounce of sweat.

March 31, 2022

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