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…

In this series, we covered all the high points of presenting to an audience. Many of the tools discussed in this series apply to other situations in the workplace. One common occurrence in software development is for a business analyst, product owner…

Even if you never present to an audience or follow any of the advice in this series you will still get some form of feedback in your development journey. Some could be positive, some will be negative. The feedback may be actionable or it may not. In…

In a previous post, I had commented on how I wanted to continue writing here while reducing screentime. In the post, I mentioned that I moved to writing on an e-paper tablet, but did not mention the product. Today, I learned of a feature, so I must…

Let's face it, no one can do it all alone. In these days of heightened sense, nuanced, and increased edge case count, a team is needed to make meaningful progress. This is true for demonstrations as well. For this post, we are going to cover how to…