September 17, 2020
When joining a new team the best way to make an impact is to volunteer for something. Anything. Can I test bugs? Can I fix some bugs? Can I review your code? Can I write some docs? These are the grunt work tasks. When Grunt Work doesn’t gets done it manifests into heaping loads of technical debt. Technical debt costs your team in the longrun. So if you’re looking to make an impact – pick up some grunt work.
September 15, 2020
I’ve ramped up my technical expertise in the past few months as I delved into the wonderful world of podcast editing for the Remotely Prepared Podcast. I enjoy doing the editing because similar to blogging and everything else, it makes me take a step back to listen to what I’m saying and find my voice in what I’m trying to do. I also get a number of ideas from that deeper thinking of things I should be writing about and drilling down into a little more. But, honestly, they are funny as anything and I mean the outtakes are funny.
September 13, 2020
The hidden underbelly of software development is translating what you write into something that someone understands. Someone that has no idea what you have written. And they can’t read your code. And even if they could read your code, they don’t want to because they don’t code. Enter logs and stacktraces which has given rise to one of my most favourite and longest-running memes ever. It is crystal clear, in all it’s glory. A developer cannot resolve a problem without knowing what happened – we need those logs. But what happens when the logs aren’t there? Or they are so
September 12, 2020
There is nothing worse than having a train of thought in a meeting that you are trying desperately to get through only to have someone interrupt and say any of the following; One second, there is someone at the door. I can’t hear you, can you hear me? I couldn’t hear that last part. Hold on, my eggs are burning Such is the world of online meetings (and that last one is legit, happened in a meeting). We can no longer run remote meetings as we ran them on-site. Are shorter meetings the answer? Perhaps. Are more efficient meetings the
September 9, 2020
There is a lot going on in the world. In your office. In your team. And all I can think of today. Is that maybe it’s a good time… To make a little noise.
