In the long list of jobs a development tech lead should be performing, one often falls off the radar. Many of the leads I have interacted with became leads due to the current lead being promoted, reorganisation, or they chose to leave. At that time…

Most minutes of most days, a software engineer is solving a problem. It may be a massive problem, a small problem, or a local or a global problem that all engineers are facing. There are always problems to solve. What I can't understand is the…

I was recently talking to a friend. He was telling me about his most recent project. Working on a brand new idea that everyone was excited about. Internal users were eager to be included in the pilot group of users. His comments about the project…

This one will be brief and straightforward. No extensive rule-set to follow. However, this is a massive hurdle for some engineers to overcome. Whenever you are about to or actively engaged in a lengthy email thread/message chain, consider dialing the…

This is a topic my team has been feeling a lot lately. It is near and dear to my heart. We have been supporting and maintaining a project for over a year, having started it as a greenfield initiative. In our proof-of-concept phase, we opted to focus…

As a dev lead, people often ask you questions. The questions come in many shapes and sizes; one type of question that is constant, implementation questions. In this post, we are going to talk about what defines a good implementation question. To…

Over the past few years, Grammarly has significantly improved my spelling, punctuation, and overall writing consistency. Recently, I have been using their updated document editor. Now, errors are clearly underlined in red, and hovering over them…

I have discussed this in other posts, and I want to provide more details for others writing content regularly. Today, my tools are quite simple. The post starts on a digital paper tablet. From there, I use the export to a text file function. With…

Today marks six weeks since the start of my latest experiment, in which I get a push notification if no post is queued up for the next publish date. So far, this is working just as I had expected. For the first several days, I had the job configured…

I was recently executing on one of my least favorite parts of custom software development, a large dataset migration and transformation. There are many reasons why I do not enjoy this type of work that we will save for another time. While performing…

You are a developer on a team going about your day, then, out of nowhere you find out there is an ongoing outage. This news flips the day from calm to frenzied in the blink of an eye. In this post, we will discuss some techniques to make the outage…

With the busy summer schedule and the previous series of posts concluding, I have been struggling to maintain the writing pace set during the series and keep the frequency up to the standards I have set for myself this year. To combat this, I had a…