Mon 16 October 2023 • misc

You’ve started a new project and you’re feeling excited. The code is well-factored, it does the minimum viable thing. You’ve shipped 0.1. Maybe you’ve even released a few different features to production.

Inevitably, a feature request comes in that requires some work that’s unrelated to your core product. Maybe it’s a one-off integration with a third party service or a function that you’ll call in a...

Mon 06 March 2023 • misc

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

No blog would be replete without an occasional check-in for the working environment. In the last few months, I've painstakingly re-worked my daily computering setup with an eye...

Fri 30 December 2022 • misc

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. -Mark Zuckerberg

In 2009, when we first heard "Move fast and break things," I can understand how that sounded innovative. At the time, AWS was only a few years old, many of the technologies that we would consider "modern" didn't even exist. Most companies were still experimenting with Agile Software Development™. Netflix was still...