re-engineering

Be the person everybody wants to teach

I’ve consciously taken a new approach to learning to do my job, and it’s by doing one simple…

Thoughts on Observability

I haven’t thought deeply about observability as a concept until recently.

Conscious of debugging approaches

When I’m stuck, I like to fall back to old ways and just do things that I remember worked for me, even when the situation then and now are quite different.

For example, I was trying to start an Android emulator for a React Native app on my…

You are not self made

There is no such thing as a self-taught or self-made programmer, because…

Someone learned before you and wrote the curriculum that you are basing your learning on.

Don’t ship code in your first 30–60 days

I’ve experienced some internal tension (in my head) in my third and fourth week at my new…

Not paid to read you

When in school we can write whatever we want and we will still be guaranteed and audience of at least one person, because our teachers are paid to read our writing.

Once we graduate, that guarantee is gone forever. Even if you paid (like we do with ads) you are not…

idempotency

Idempotent is a word used to describe a system component that has the characteristic of “having the same outcome regardless of repeated…

set tripwires for yourself to make better decisions