Sharing experiences, practices, and learnings to improve the field. Experienced startup CTO, DevOps practitioner, and software engineer. Avid reader and audio book listener.
continuous-integration
Ensuring compliance with open source software licensing can be challenging for software engineering leaders, but there are great tools available in open source that can help you to get started.
programming
Code is not mine, it’s ours. Through that our code is mine. There's something incredibly harmful about an individual owning a piece of code. When I say owning a piece of code I mean they feel like they have a right, above and beyond the rights of
management
People usually worry about recreating the serendipitous water cooler talk in a remote context. In fact Marissa Goldberg (@mar15sa on Twitter) has a great thread about this very topic. It's an important and worthwhile consideration as a leader. Today though, I'm going to turn the issue
curated-content
A few pieces of content I thought were worthwhile in the month of May.
programming
If you work in your own office, and regularly have uninterrupted stretches of deep work, congratulations, you and your organization are doing many things right. But consider for a moment if that’s the situation for everyone on your team. And then consider if it’s likely to stay true
productivity
The COVID based home office can be a hotbed of interruptions. Your kids and partner feel like you’re around, so they can just drop in real quick to ask you a question, or for a quick hand. And feeling like you’re chained to your desk for 8 hours
engineering-management
So you've done it. No more fires. You're the dog that has caught the car that you've spent so long chasing, you didn't know what you'd do when you finally caught it. You can start to feel like you'
startups
Or: Pick a north star and start moving that direction
engineering-management
Velocity as measured by frequency of deploys can be too fast. How to address that depends on the causes.
curated-content
A few pieces of content I thought were worthwhile from the month of April.
engineering-management
Today's story is a story about failure on my part. One of the joys of being an engineering leader is mentoring and guiding folks towards new shared best practices, mental models, and design patterns. One of my teams had been incrementally delivering a mission critical set of features
pull-requests
What's in a good code review? Where do you start? There are so many different angles we can take this one, depending on the goals of the organization and the team. Let's start by laying some groundwork. What can code review get us? * Increased Code Quality