Trauma and ProcessThis is a post about a simple yet profoundly influential vicious cycle that occurs frequently in software development environments.Jul 2, 2021Jul 2, 2021
Nobody’s app is named “App”Naming is important. As has been pointed out many times before, computers faithfully execute our written instructions, but we don’t write…Jun 9, 2021Jun 9, 2021
Bring Domain-Driven Organization to your Codebase Today. Break Nothing.As some of you may know, for several years now I have been interested in bringing domain holism to software projects.Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021
What to do between changes and runtimeThink about the system flow and generate a set of expectations before you exercise your code.Sep 13, 2018Sep 13, 2018
Improving technical savvy and team performance through “I don’t know”I’ve been reading a lot of Brené Brown lately. As part of a welcome career transition out of enterprise software and into software…Sep 10, 2018Sep 10, 2018
Soft Skills 101If there’s one thing that I still don’t believe is talked about quite enough in the development world, if it’s not gender inequality then…Apr 16, 2016Apr 16, 2016
Thinking Small: Week Three at the Iron YardWell we’re almost through week four here at the Iron Yard as I’m writing this, if that tells you anything.Mar 25, 2016Mar 25, 2016
Unlocking Creativity through Iterative ImprovementIn a great talk from last year’s Ruby Remote Conf, Peter Cooper gave me permission to write scrappy code (Seriously, he did. We can go back…Mar 18, 2016Mar 18, 2016
Week Two At The Iron YardWell, we made it through week two of the Iron Yard Indy, and to quote Keanu Reeves at his finest…Mar 12, 2016Mar 12, 2016
I am an Imposter (And so can You!)Just watched this talk on imposter syndrome by Julie Pagano for an Iron Yard assignment.Mar 11, 2016Mar 11, 2016
