August 7, 2022
Plants Grow. People Grow. Teams Grow. So why would you think your code can never be improved? Never get better and never grow. It doesn’t mean your code was bad, it means it’s simply time for it to move on, grow and become something else.
August 4, 2022
I don’t think you can ever go in search of a Mentor. You might read about someone and decide that they are like you, but you won’t know until you sit down and talk with them. Because they are famous does not mean that the two of you will click immediately. I think it happens organically, over time, through successes and failures, and in some instances, you won’t even realize it until it’s over. It might be days, weeks, or years until you realize what a great mentor they were to you without even having entered into that formal engagement
August 2, 2022
There is a path between two problems that are often ignored and generally occurs between two opposing sides. Some call it the middle ground, but it’s simply another option for getting work done. Sometimes there is no middle ground or way in between, other times, a good number of times, there are more options here than we could ever believe. The problem is being willing to look at them, that’s where we stumble.
August 1, 2022
It doesn’t need it – your code – it doesn’t need to be defended. You don’t need to cite why it is excellent, works, and shouldn’t be changed and how the problem must be elsewhere. Because if it’s running, if it’s doing the thing you built it to do, if it’s scaling, if it’s handling errors and not losing them and if it’s taking a hit but keeps on running. Then that is all the defense it needs.
July 30, 2022
Lately, I’ve been working on a few projects where I find we are doing the same things over and over again that we have done for years. Security implementations that are either overtly cumbersome or miss out on base security role implementation requirements End to End trace logging through back-end systems. Performance Injection for how bad something is going without having to rebuild the code each time Distribution of Notifications Frameworks that scale as they grow (not just a “here’s how you send this” type of thing) Those are the problems I keep seeing over and over again.
