Happy Friday,I'm just old enough now that some things I learned early in my career younger people may not know about. This week's email is about one of those topics and it is called bikeshedding.The story goes that a committee was reviewing plans for...
Happy Friday!I've made the mistake of spending more time on LinkedIn and my feed is full of three basic things. One is people talking about basic programming techniques like how to write a loop in TypeScript compared to Javascript. Another is folks t...
Happy Friday,This will be a brief update, as I'm currently in the midst of packing for a week-long trip with the family.I've had a whole bunch of conversations that are in the realm of build vs buy, and I feel that earned a few words in this week's n...
Happy Friday,For those of you who don't know, I keep bees as a hobby. This year, I had some big ambitions with my hives to raise queens for the first time, and wind up with eight or so hives.Things did not go the way I planned.Now, raising queens is...
Happy FridayIf you've ever watched any of my talks, you'll see that I love games. Not just video games, but card games, board games, and even role-playing games. Well, especially role-playing games.If you aren't sure what role-playing games are, you...
Happy Friday,Around two or three times a year I'll experience an urge to learn a new programming language. Usually, I resist and wait until the feeling passes and I realize learning a new language is not a good use of my time. Well, I fell to that ur...
Happy Friday,Sometimes you do something you know you shouldn't. For me that means trying out Clojure. If you don't know what Clojure is, it is a LISP with a die-hard following. It is so different than any other language that I'm really having to work...
Happy Friday!One thing I've been trying to do more of is read research papers on topics that I am passionate about, have data on, or deal with regularly at my clients. A specific topic I like to focus on is testing.I remember early in my development...
Happy Friday,I used to speak at conferences around 6 times a year. That was before COVID. I always enjoyed speaking at conferences, but it certainly had its downsides. First, the cost of travelling to conferences added up quick. Second, the whole app...
Happy Friday!Guess what? I'm doing a talk on April 8th, and I'd love for you to attend! My talk is going to try to tackle how to introduce TDD to a non-technical person.You should attend, it's free!One of the reasons I chose to talk on this subject i...