Beekey Cheung

Beekey Cheung is a software engineer with a large amount of enthusiasm for economics and a passion for education. He loves mentoring other programmers and is currently building an application to teach software development fundamentals.

Joined on May 20, 2016 http://professorbeekums.com

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Beekey Cheung

Jan 11

Customer Support Makes Better Software

#programming #webdev #bugs #codequality

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A Guide To Automated Testing

Thanks! Definitely agree with you. I think the challenge with...

Feb 26 '21

What was your win this week?

I got a ton of great feedback this week about my note-taking ...

Dec 5 '20

Remote Work Is Not The Best Possible Future

I agree. I'm also working from home due to my current situati...

Jun 1 '20

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

You bring up an excellent point. People will definitely act...

Oct 8 '19

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

I agree about the need to test technical and inter-personal...

Oct 8 '19

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

The ironic thing is that one goal of a personality test wou...

Oct 8 '19

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

That's awful. I can only hope good candidates refuse to wor...

Oct 8 '19

I’m sorry, but this “Full Stack” meme makes me really mad/sad

Depends on your definition of "mastered". Mine isn't where ...

Apr 18 '19

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Beekey Cheung

Jan 3

Preventing Hero Culture In Software Teams

#management #leadership #programming #teams

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Dec 29 '21

The Perils of Programming Magic

#programming #java #log4j #webdev

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Dec 14 '21

AWS Went Down. Now What?

#programming #devops #aws #webdev

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Dec 8 '21

Solving Common Concurrency Problems

#programming #concurrency #webdev

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Nov 18 '21

Interview Performance Does Not Equal Job Performance

#career #interview #management #leadership

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Beekey Cheung

Feb 20 '21

A Guide To Automated Testing

#webdev #productivity #testing

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Dec 1 '20

Taking Better Debugging Notes

#productivity #programming #debugging

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Jun 18 '20

Artificial Intelligence and Jobs

#career

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Beekey Cheung

May 31 '20

Remote Work Is Not The Best Possible Future

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Beekey Cheung

Oct 7 '19

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

#interview #management #hiring

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Aug 26 '19

Randomness in Software Estimates

#estimates #projectmanagement #agile

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May 6 '19

Can't Be A Software Architect Without Writing Code

#teaching #architecture

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Apr 11 '19

How Do You Handle Product Specs?

#discuss

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Jun 3 '19

Context Is Essential To Software Design

#architecture #design #microservices

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Apr 16 '19

Philosophy of Technology

#libraries #thirdparties #architecture

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Mar 27 '19

Failing Fast Is Not Enough

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Mar 11 '19

Why Are Tests Not Written?

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Beekey Cheung

Jan 14 '19

Can AI Help Build Software?

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Beekey Cheung

Dec 6 '18

Argh! I need a date/time widget

#datetime #nlp #widgets #ai

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Nov 28 '18

The Right Time For Abstractions

#architecture #design #refactoring

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Nov 13 '18

The Wonder of Human Intelligence

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Oct 26 '18

The Role Of Manual Testing

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Sep 24 '18

What Is Money?

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Sep 5 '18

Abstraction For The Sake Of Abstraction

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Aug 20 '18

Who Tests Code

#testing #qa

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Aug 7 '18

Backfilling Tests

#testing #codequality #techdebt

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Beekey Cheung

Jul 16 '18

Constructive Procrastination

#procrastinating #creativity #softwaredesign

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Jul 13 '18

The Things That Don't Matter When Building Software

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May 25 '18

When Multitasking Is The Only Option

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May 7 '18

Do Password Rules Make Us Safer?

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Apr 17 '18

Dealing With Unknowns In Software Development

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Mar 26 '18

Interviewing Developers For The Skills You Actually Need

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Feb 27 '18

"I Don't Want To Maintain Their Code"

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Jan 29 '18

How Developers Make Their Jobs Harder

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Beekey Cheung

Dec 11 '17

The Short Term Benefits of Unit Tests

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Nov 30 '17

Taking On Technical Debt

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Nov 7 '17

Story Points and Time

#projectmanagement

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Beekey Cheung

Oct 23 '17

Thoughts On Front End Architecture

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Oct 10 '17

Letting Go of the Edge Cases

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Beekey Cheung

Oct 4 '17

The Many Aspects Of A Developer

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Sep 20 '17

Tradeoffs Of Time Estimates

#productivity #teamwork

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Sep 21 '17

Performance Vs Scalability

#scaling

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Feb 10 '18

Team of Teams

#management

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Sep 23 '17

Technology Problems Are People Problems First

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Sep 23 '17

All Code Is Technical Debt

#techdebt

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

Do You Need To Hire The Best Developers?

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

Process Is No Substitute For Culture

#management #culture

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

When Is A Developer's Job Done?

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

Limits Are As Important As Benefits

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

Death Marches Aren't Worth It

#management #burnout

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Feb 10 '18

The Worst Kind of Bugs

#bugs

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Feb 10 '18

Software Projects Die By A Thousand Cuts

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Feb 10 '18

Not Everything Needs To Scale

#scaling #management #time #architecture

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

Accuracy vs Clarity

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Sep 23 '17

Some Lessons Learned On Mentoring

#mentoring

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Beekey Cheung

Sep 23 '17

One Reason Startups Can Build Features Fast

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Beekey Cheung

Feb 10 '18

Data Modeling Is Important For Product Managers

#data #productmanagement

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Feb 10 '18

Take Time To Explain

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Sep 23 '17

The Problem With Heroes In Software Development

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A Guide To Automated Testing

What was your win this week?

Remote Work Is Not The Best Possible Future

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

I’m sorry, but this “Full Stack” meme makes me really mad/sad