A love letter to my fellow problem solvers and tinkerers. — We are an odd bunch. We spend our days staring into screens, or sometimes into nothingness trying to understand a problem we’re trying to solve. We also spend our days trying to convince other humans that the problems we’re solving are hard and that we need computers to solve them…

“If you don’t evolve, you will die. “— Marcus Lemonis This is the final instalment of the series I’ve been working on about Modern Software Engineering. So far, I’ve written about the following topics: System Design (Part 1) Testing (Part 2) Documentation (Part 3) Deployment (Part 4) In this part…

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney Modern software, especially those that are deployed through the Internet, has gone through many iterations over the past couple of decades. Ever since ubiquitous internet…

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal — Documentation is a perennially controversial topic because, in my experience, software engineering has focused so much on the business value of artefacts like the source code and shipping features more than others. I constantly hear folks saying that we should only be writing the documentation that’s required in Agile practices…

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the act of putting them in.” – Edsger Djikstra Writing automated software tests is like playing a game of telephone with yourself – you’re the only person you can blame when you misunderstand what the message is…

“Make it simple, but significant.” – Don Draper, Mad Men — Growing up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, my exposure to computers was limited to almost exclusively gaming consoles (I considered the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 gaming computers because I only ever saw games being run on them) or the early x86 systems. …

I had a chance to be an interim software architect recently, and here’s a story about what I’ve learned in the process — I’m coming up to two years at my current role as a Principal Software Engineer, and in that time I was able to work in a project as an interim Software Architect. …

Begin with the end in mind. — As a Principal Software Engineer, I get to see a lot of folks joining the industry and trying to find their footing to climb the software engineering career ladder. …

Learning is a hard endeavour. It helps to have a process that works for you. Learning new things when you’re new to a field or subject used to be a daunting prospect for me. When I was younger, I would have trouble with even the basics of arithmetic to the…