Developer experience, developer happiness, developer productivity. Three terms that treat symptoms, not causes. Why? Developer experience – how a developer feels when they get to… Read More »Is The Goal of Software Companies to Make Software Engineers Happy?
The great thing about legacy code is that it’s everywhere and it’s growing bigger by the day. This means infinite fun is to be had.… Read More »Loving the Legacy Rabbit Hole
When does legacy code first appear? How does working at the limits of our abilities (or when we are constrained) affect the quality and supportability… Read More »The Social Legacy of Code
The human brain likes to be rewarded. We get a glow from improvement. The good news is that the tools that we have around us… Read More »Lines of Code: How to Feel Good About Yourself
So often we are confronted with the option of building or not building. Staring at a line of code. Complete the syntax, writing in automatic.… Read More »When you code. Mean it.
To get started in software you need two things. A good memory for useless details and an ability to see patterns in the things around… Read More »What Do You Need To Get Started in Software?
Do you find yourself wishing you’d never started a change? Do you ever dread having to go back to some code you wrote years ago?… Read More »What Happened to the Fun in Software Development?
You might have heard of James Clear’s Atomic Habits book – you may have even read it. One thing it breaks down for you (pun… Read More »Just Fix One Thing
We all want to get stuff done, right? But how do we get stuff done? We can small-picture, zoom-in on our todo list or do… Read More »The Power of the Business Case
Before the world had VS Code there was Sublime Text. Before the world had Notepad++ there was Notepad. Before vi and emacs? Well I’m not… Read More »Why Vi or Emacs?