How we spend our Engineering budgets

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people, how many tasks, how much effort, how much cost…

Lending the privilege of being employed

I’ve been laid off three times in my career (not counting the 3 times I’ve laid myself off, when it was what was best for the company), I’ve been the author of 3 layoffs in order to save a company so that those who remained would continue to have good jobs. In total I’ve helped or…

Code Shaming is the worst anti-pattern of all.

As a developer manager (of sorts), I often find myself digging into code I don’t understand in applications…