Jake Winters
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Jake Winters
@jakew.ca
Father, husband, software developer. In that order. My opinions are my own.
Nothing in this world irks me more than the automated kiosks at Shoppers that yell out “Tell us how we did today!”

You didn’t do anything, kiosk. You made **me** do the work.
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’d love to be able to tell your something happened. 😅 I decided the pool of lawyers was limited and that I didn’t want to burn through potential interviews learning to do Customer Development, so I would pick a more plentiful niche to practice on. Then life got busy and that didn’t happen, either.
July 27, 2023 at 9:29 AM
Mine is https://jakew.ca, currently a blog but I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. Might replace it with Substack.
Jake W.
Personal blog of software developer and entrepreneur-in-progress Jake Winters.
jakew.ca
July 26, 2023 at 8:45 PM
The only real solution imho
May 28, 2023 at 8:15 PM
You forgot the part where about deciding to start making lists of the things to never actually to do.
May 28, 2023 at 8:14 PM
The best kind of coworker. ❤️🐶
May 26, 2023 at 9:55 AM
But also, congrats on 13 years. I think that’s amazing!

I have friends that have been married 3 times in that same time span.
May 26, 2023 at 1:28 AM
My wife and I moved 2800 km from our home town. Then we had two kids.

My mother and mother-in-law both have now moved 2800 km from our/their home town just to be closer to us and our kids.

I don’t know how we made it work before they got here.
May 26, 2023 at 1:24 AM
I prefer unit first but I’m not 100% sure why. I want to say there are cases where the error ends up super ambiguous if you use a variable first or something.

🤔
May 26, 2023 at 1:14 AM
Thanks!
May 26, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Fiction: The Watchmen. Non-fiction: How to Take Smart Notes.
May 26, 2023 at 12:36 AM
The most painful part is stopping. I’m great until I have to leave the code. Not so cop-out answer: managing tickets. When AI can just manage my tickets, I’ll be happy. But by then it’ll get rid of the fun stuff like programming. :(
May 25, 2023 at 11:55 PM