With the right language, everything is a toy. […] Two conversations I've had in the past week dovetailed perfectly. One focused on the perils of one-shot development, the other on the challenge …

I've been thinking it's time for me to revisit Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. It was one of those books that sunk its claws into me. While I didn't end up deploying those languages in a professional …

Keeping current is hard. It's even harder remembering what you were current on last month. A recent post that flitted by reminded me about Obsidian Vaults, Claude, and the fervor of second brains - …

Oh what I would do, if only I knew... […] Logging has been a continuously evolving practice for me. When I started writing code, I leaned heavily into debug/log/assert hack based strategies. I …

I recently came across this rethinking of the Amazon way and this interview where we hear that Spotify is pushing ~4500 production releases a day. Both are worth a dive, but they dance around the …

With one of my side web projects I noticed that it had been months since I'd taken a hard look at the level of accessibility. I'd run a pass using axe-core, and addressed the issues, and then set it …

TL;DR: Brand isn't a role, it's what you bring. […] Personal Brand - that’s my next challenge. On the surface it should be pretty straightforward - how do people view the value I bring, what’s …

I’ve never met anyone who loves pulling weeds. I’ve met plenty of people who love to garden. Some people enjoy the design, the selection of what to grow. Others enjoy watching the transformation as …

In one of the evolutions of Nike's core principles, Be a Sponge had a good run. On its surface being a sponge seems like a simple callout to know your environment before you act. It's a reminder to be …

Visual InterDev 6.0's HTML editor. Screenshot via irt.org, used for historical commentary; Visual InterDev is a trademark of Microsoft. […] Further mutterings on finding joy in development. …