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Healthcare: The Hidden Tax You’re Already Paying
Let me walk you through a simple calculation that might change how you think about your compensation. Calculate Your Healthcare Tax Use the Healthcare Cost Calculator → Or do it manually: Step 1: Pull up your most recent pay stub and your benefits enrollment documents. Step 2: Find these numbers: Add those three together. That’s…
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How do I get Windows 11 to Stop Updating the Background Back to Bing Wallpaper
I occasionally remote in to my personal Windows machine in addition to my work Windows machine and I have a personal Mac and work Mac that (despite stickers on the personal one) I somehow can’t tell apart. So I usually use a wallpaper from Svalbard from Cecilia Blomdahl and a Set-Wallpaper.ps1 script to set my…
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The Core Purpose of an Agile Methodology: Incremental Validation and Course Correction – A Reference Guide
There’s a persistent confusion in the software development world about what makes an agile methodology valuable. Teams often focus on ceremonies, tools, and processes while missing the fundamental purpose. The value in agile development methodologies is in their incremental validation of course correctness and ability to adjust time/quality/cost to new information as soon as possible.…