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Andy Lester
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I've been a professional programmer for 33 years. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.

My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

I created and maintain the programmer's grep-like search tool ack

My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is blog.petdance.com.

Twitter: petdance, beyondgrep and perlbuzz

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Fired for third time from a software development job. What to do?
Oct 18, 2018
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Should I tell my workplace that I’m thinking of quitting?
Nov 14, 2018
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I am a full-stack engineer but my manager wants to make me do frontend development exclusively
May 5, 2022
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Resume: How to quantify my contributions as a software engineer?
Sep 11, 2019
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When subordinate gives the stakeholders a lower time estimation
May 26, 2021
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Shouldn't I expect my boss to change his attitude when it is detrimental to office morale?
Jun 6, 2017
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Is it worth putting a skill that is a prerequisite of a lot of other skills on my resume
Jul 14, 2016
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Is using internet proxies a sackable offence?
Feb 21, 2018
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CEO tells employees what they should do next, bypassing company hierarchy
Apr 5, 2016
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How can I manage my need to take short bathroom breaks in a professional setting?
Apr 14, 2016
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How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?
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How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
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How can I sanitize user input with PHP?
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How can I speed up my Perl program?

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