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Dealing with Decision Fatigue as a Startup Founder - The Infinite List

Starting a business comes with obvious hard things like hiring and long hours. How does one deal with the less obvious ones like anxiety and decision fatigue?

by Larissa Pienaar

Topic: tech career insights

Undercover UX: Creating a User Research Culture From Scratch

Regular user testing is essential to any product development, but can be hard to incorporate into the development process. Here's how I started from scratch.

by Cara Winterbottom

Topic: tech career insights

How I Get the Most Out of Hackathons

Hackathons are great opportunities for learning and growth. To tap into this, you need to consider things carefully. Here are my strategies.

by Jo Pearl

Topic: tech insights

How I Ensure Cross-Browser Compatibility

South Africans browse the web in a range of different ways. I will explain the obstacles to creating an engaging experience and how I overcame them.

by Dieter Buntzen

Topic: tech insights

How I use Jupyter Notebooks as a sandbox for building visualisations

Jupyter Notebooks let me combine live visualisation code with my notes in a single, interactive document. Here's how I got started with it, step by step.

by Shiraaz Moollatjie

Topic: tech career insights

What I Learned From Interviewing For A New Job

Getting rejected is an inevitable part of job hunting, but it turned out to be much harder than I expected. Here's how I learnt to deal with it.

by Petrus Kruger

Topic: tech career insights

Common Problems During Scrum Adoption And How to Overcome Them

There are still many problems and failures during the adoption and implementation of Scrum. I will discuss how to identify and categorise these problems.

by Ridewaan Hanslo

Topic: tech insights

Simulating The Right Thing: Property-Based Testing

Property-based testing works great in a small set of situations, such as my tower defence game bot. Here's how I made sure that my bot was simulating valid move...

by Justin Worthe

Topic: tech insights

What We Learned From Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping is great for growing your skill set and applying your mind to problems. These are our key learnings from prototyping an isiZulu chatbot.

by Mark Jones and Mike Harrison

Topic: tech career insights

Reflections of a Former Developer Trying Hard Not to Be Called a Manager

It’s nothing new for a techie to move into a leadership role. Here are some of the challenges I faced, and how I changed my thinking and behaviour.

by Neil MacKellar

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