THE BLOG — 10 POSTS AND COUNTING
Notes from themiddle of things.
Essays about building software, growing up (professionally, allegedly), moving countries, and the books that got me through it.
The bug that taught me to take walks
Three days, one missing semicolon's spiritual cousin, and the surprisingly good debugging tool that is a park bench.
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Why I stopped chasing 'senior' and started chasing curiosityTitles are nice. Being the person who asks the weird question in standup is nicer.8 minBoring technology is a love languageChoosing Postgres again is not a lack of imagination. It is a gift to future you.5 minNotes from starting over in a new countryTwo suitcases, one very confused cat, and a lot of learning to say "sorry, again?"11 minFive books that made me a kinder code reviewerNone of them are about code. All of them are about people.4 minThe MVP that was secretly a spreadsheetOur first hundred users never knew. They were very happy. We were very tired.7 minI deleted 4,000 lines of code and nobody noticedThe best pull request of my career was almost entirely red.6 minHow to ask for help without apologizing three timesA small script for a big fear.5 minWhat my grandmother taught me about code reviewShe never saw a line of code. She did review a lot of my homework.6 minReading slowly on purposeTwelve books a year, fully digested, beats fifty skimmed.4 min
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