Recent Articles - Opinion

Amortize Your Learning by Writing How-To Guides
Amortize Your Learning by Writing How-To Guides
Mar 4, 2024 · 6 min read

The time required to learn something new can be large, but you can make that cost worth it by teaching it to others.


Your Standup is Too Long
Your Standup is Too Long
Aug 8, 2022 · 8 min read

The Agile Alliance recommends 15 minutes every day, I would recommend even shorter and less often.


Building Team Connection with Personal Fist to Five
Building Team Connection with Personal Fist to Five
Aug 7, 2022 · 4 min read

Fist to five is a technique for gauging consensus on a prompt, but it can also be used to build connections within teams.


Avoiding Blanket Statements
Avoiding Blanket Statements
May 6, 2022 · 6 min read

One part of emotional intelligence is understanding how our words impact others.


Being Critical of Past Developers
Being Critical of Past Developers
May 14, 2020 · 2 min read

How were those past developers of this project so very wrong?


Pull Requests Welcome™
Pull Requests Welcome™
Feb 15, 2020 · 5 min read

Developers like to complain. We'll complain about lack of documentation, lack of tests, choice of framework, choice of linter settings, and so on. My response to it? Pull requests welcome.


Why You Should Use UUIDs for Your Primary Keys
Why You Should Use UUIDs for Your Primary Keys
Jan 30, 2020 · 4 min read

Universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) are 128-bit (16-byte) numbers that are designed to be globally unique, and as a result they make for great primary keys.