When I first started coding, I’d just jump in, all action and no roadmap. It worked… until it didn’t. As the codebase grew, I started spending more time backtracking and trying to remember why I made certain decisions. That’s when I realized: a bit o...
⚙️ Automate What Matters — A Guide for Developers and Tech ProsPhoto by Igor Omilaev on UnsplashAutomation is amazing — until it isn’t. Sometimes it’s like ordering a robot butler and getting a Roomba that keeps eating your socks. The truth is, autom...
https://medium.com/media/c4ed344abccb24fde34e345b77e832c5/hrefFor as long as I can remember, I’ve kept my markdown notes in files by date (e.g. 2024–09–17.md) relying on tagging and search to find a note based on content. This works okay, but when I...
Ⓜ️⬇️ Markdown — The Most Important Tool In My ToolboxFirst appeared in Maximize your software development productivityHey Friends 👋,As a software developer myself, I’ve found that markdown is the most important tool in my toolbox. It’s the glue that...
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how important it is to keep software artifacts as close to the source code as possible. It’s even more important on large software projects.Most of the projects I’ve encountered in my 26 year career in software...
I work full time as an advising consultant and software engineer, so I really need to automate a lot my work on imdone. For starters, I use imdone to plan and manage releases of imdone.Being the first user of an imdone release allows me to try out ne...
For Uncovering Technical Debt Hiding in Your Code!Over the last 20 years I’ve been an IT Developer, Test Engineer, Software Architect, Enterprise Architect, Engineering Manager, Scrum Master, Entrepreneur and Product Manager. I’ve worked full time in...
Writing software all day, you come across opportunities to refactor or eliminate technical debt. But you can’t always take the time to right the wrongs of programmers past and present. So you write yourself a note, or worse, you write a TODO comment....
imdone-atom and imdone.io have received an upgrade! We now have a new integration type, webhooks. The cool thing about webhooks, is they’re 100% flexible, eventful, and now because of glitch, easy as hell to implement. To get you started, I’ve put to...
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/imdone-webhook-twitterNow you can integrate any way you want. Just configure the payloadURL of your imdone.io project’s webhook. The payloadURL will receive an HTTP POST with the following JSON body.{ "taskNow": {}, // h...