Towards a better developer onboarding experience

“I have to do WHAT to start the application?!”

Sadly, this is the reaction of a lot of developers on their first day on the job. Tasked with “getting the new guy set up” you may launch a disjointed effort of pointing…

The parable of the low-hanging fruit and the tree shakers

I am a software developer, not a management consultant. However, recently I was reading a book called “The McKinsey Way”, a 1999 meta case study on management consulting practices with McKinsey & Company. One thing that stuck out…

Lessons in Software Development from airplane crash investigations

Recently for whatever reason, my latest YouTube binge has been Smithsonian Channel’s airplane crash investigation documentary series. Each episode details a particular incident, then reconstructs the sequence of…

Life Hack #174: Facebook PathPicker (fpp)

Have you ever done this when you have a relatively large applicaton, or one that uses lots of symbolic links in a build?

‘git status’

YUGE listing of 100+ files