“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – The Princess Bride […]
The Manager Manifesto
This has been gnawing at me for a while now: as engineers, we obsess over how we solve problems with […]
WTF Was That?! (Part 1)
“I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things.” –Jack Burton, “Big Trouble In Little China” (1986) […]
Rushing Into Management
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — […]
The Lazy Developer Manifesto
Embrace the natural order and your true self After over 25 years of being in the software development “circus”, I […]
AI, Take The Wheel!
“This [AI] thing–is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash If you […]
Agile Flows Like A Waterfall
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was […]
Software Engineering is dead, long live the Software Engineer!
The tragic shift away from engineering thinking to developer thinking. Not to give off “back in my day” vibes, but […]
The dangers of copy-pasta
Copy-paste. It’s easy. It’s fast. You might want to use more brain cells first before blindly doing it. Years ago […]