Tom Elliottinaverage-coder5 Leader”tips” and the Software Engineering Success SummitGoing from Individual Contributor to Manager, I had to learn quickly, and made plenty of mistakes along the way. These are some of the…Jan 26, 20211Jan 26, 20211
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderCan you use GitHub Actions for Monitoring?Short answer: you could, but you really, really shouldn’t.Aug 1, 2020Aug 1, 2020
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderAudiobook Review: The Unicorn ProjectThe Unicorn Project is Gene Kim’s follow up to 2013’s The Phoenix Project, which I reviewed a couple of years ago.Mar 15, 2020Mar 15, 2020
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderHow to test your Go packages with GitHub ActionsActions are a GitHub feature — currently in beta — that allows you to add workflows to your repositories to execute automated tasks (such…May 12, 2019May 12, 2019
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderAn unexpected effect with Go SlicesGo’s slices can be pretty powerful, providing an array-like construct that can be dynamically re-sized at will, and grown in a reasonably…Apr 4, 2019Apr 4, 2019
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderDisagree and CommitI was out getting lunch today, and something happened that got me thinking about how we deal with decisions we don’t like.Feb 28, 2019Feb 28, 2019
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderOn “How to Win Friends & Influence People”I just finished listening to the Audible version of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People and it’s been quite the read!Jan 31, 2019Jan 31, 2019
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderDetecting cycles: safer JSON marshaling in GoJSON marshaling/unmarshaling in Go is a very powerful feature, but there are limits to the Go structures that can be marshaled. Most of…Sep 26, 2018Sep 26, 2018
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderHow to debug a running Go app with VSCodeVSCode is a great editor for Go, providing a variety of helpful features to save you time while coding. It also includes support for…Sep 17, 20181Sep 17, 20181
Tom Elliottinaverage-coderThoughts on a Decade of BloggingI just realized that I passed my 10 year blogging anniversary this month. My first post on The Other Tom Elliott was early August of 2009…Aug 26, 2018Aug 26, 2018
