PinnedPreventing Hero Culture In Software TeamsI’ve written before on the problems of hero culture. It is still my favorite post that I’ve written because it hits so close to home for me. Photo by unDraw Every situation in that post is hypothetical, but based on a real situation I had to deal with myself. Unfortunately…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Feb 27Remember That Strange Programming Bug?You run a command you’ve run a hundred times to test your software. It usually works. This time it doesn’t. This time you get some strange error. No stack trace. No indication of where the issue is. Just “Error” or something equally useless. Time to hit the search engines! There’s…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Feb 20A Better Way To Prevent Spam“Reward” Scams. Mailing lists you never signed up for. Mailing lists you know you unsubscribed from. Random gibberish that’s likely a phishing attempt. A lot of these types of emails hit your inbox. Who knows how they obtained your email address. Maybe someone sold your email address. Maybe a service…Spam3 min readSpam3 min read
Feb 9Tech Hiring Is BrokenThere’s a huge amount of waste in the hiring process for software developers. It is a wasteful process for both the developers being interviewed and the companies doing the interviewing. Let’s take a developer named Amara. Amara goes through a technical interview for Software R Us. It’s 4 1-hour sessions…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Jan 16There Is No Roadmap To Becoming A Software DeveloperThere is no mold you need to fit into to be a great developer. A lot of people have an impression of what a developer should be or where they should come from. It’s as if there’s a set career path (e.g. …Software Development2 min readSoftware Development2 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 15, 2022Can AI “Take” Jobs Away?There has been a lot of discussion over the years about the number of jobs Artificial Intelligence (AI) may “take away”. Some have already lost their jobs to robots, which compounds the fear. While the notion of losing your job to AI may be scary, it is important to consider…Artificial Intelligence11 min readArtificial Intelligence11 min read
May 8, 2022March of The Agile ConsultantsThere was a time where most software was built under the waterfall model. You gathered requirements, then designed your system, then wrote the code, shipped the code to QA, then shipped the code to customers. A nice perfect assembly line. Except software development isn’t an assembly line. When you get…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
Published in Bootcamp·Apr 24, 2022Users Don’t Care About Your JIRA BoardI’m going to start this off by saying that I think JIRA is an ok tool. Good project management requires some visual tracker on progress. …Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Apr 10, 2022Tenacity Makes Great DevelopersProgrammers often joke that our job is mostly copying and pasting stuff from Stack Overflow. If that were true, we wouldn’t be one of the most highly paid professions. And the hiring market wouldn’t be as insane as it is right now. More often than not, the answer is not…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Mar 20, 2022Side Projects Make You Better At Your Full Time JobIn 2014, I had been hearing a lot of talk about Go. It sounded like a really exciting language that I wanted to try. Having learned to code in Java and spending my early career working in Java, I was used to complex inheritence hierarchies and many many layers of…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
