“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…

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…

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…

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

I’m always looking for some sort of command line workflow improvement — oh-my-zsh is great in its auto-completion plugins for many programs, but I recently discovered its counterpart, zsh-syntax-highlighting. I always have this problem that I fat…

A colleague once remarked: “This guy! Lives in the browser.”

Guilty as charged. I spend a lot of time in the Chrome Developer Tools debugging scripts, looking at why resources aren’t loading fast, and getting pixel perfection for UI components. While I know all…