The Software Life It’s Not About the Code — It’s About the Relationship My most important consulting skill is relational. Relationship doesn't make the work easier; it makes the hard parts possible.
Personal Optimization 100 Ways to Reclaim Your Commute When my bus route recently detoured around major construction, I started brainstorming ways to take back my commute. Here are 100 of them.
Growing as Makers Switching Industries: How to Thrive Through Career Change Moving into the tech industry was a big change, but I've learned lessons that apply to anyone navigating a career change into a new space.
The Software Life Tips for Junior Developers to Land a Job If you’re a junior developer searching for work, you need strategies that help you stand out today and land a job.
Development Practices Delete Your Code! Over time, I've learned you must delete your code. It's a prescribed burn when your unmanaged codebase gets close to spontaneous combustion.
Development Practices Tips for Frontend Work in an Environment with No Tests Testing is worthwhile, but sometimes not possible. Here are a few tips for working in a multiple-frontend environment with no tests.
PostgreSQL 3 Lessons From Nearly Blowing Up a Production Database Struggling with Postgres production database bloat? Here's how I diagnosed TOAST bloat, tuned autovacuum, and fixed a runaway storage issue.
Extracurricular Activities PottyMon: Keeping the Bathroom Monitor Tradition Alive Our bathroom monitor deteriorated from a lack of interest. But with new technology, could I keep the tradition of PottyMon alive?
Project & Team Management You Should Be Doing Project Retrospectives Reflecting on what has just happened is invaluable to my consulting practice. Here's why I write a retrospective after every project.
The Software Life Here’s How Software Makers Can Stay in the Game Even While on the Bench One key learning I’ve come to realize while “on the bench” is how important it is to add value by staying true to our Atomic values.
Project & Team Management Apply Iterative Development Practices to Legacy Modernization Projects Iterative development is part of developing new products, but it's equally important during legacy modernization projects.
Figma How to Connect Figma to Cursor Using the Figma MCP Server Overall, I’ve had great success using the Figma MCP Server when implementing designs, and I hope you do too!
