Development Practices

Most Recent

Help! I Inherited a Frankenstein Codebase (And I’m All Out of Coffee)

A codebase could end up in a Frankenstein state for many reasons, and improving a poorly-built codebase is a marathon, not a sprint.

Development Practices

K3s is easy to deploy. It has a great installer, and it's fully compatible with the entire Kubernetes ecosystem of tooling.

Development Practices

Dealing with single commits? Get comfortable with a handful of Git commands: git commit, git rebase, and git reset --soft.

Development Practices

Learn what the PATH environment variable does, how terminals find commands, and how to debug common “command not found” errors.

Development Practices

Transform your release notes strategy with a streamlined digest format that increases clarity and reduces user confusion.

Development Practices

Getting PDF fields to render correctly in Chrome involved three things working together. None of this was obvious from the PdfSharpCore docs.

Development Practices

Understanding how memory works by leveraging savedStateHandle in Android applications make your app have a seamless user experience

Development Practices

Retroactively building security into health tech is a huge pain. But, setting up automation for compliance from the beginning isn’t so bad.

Development Practices

With stacked PRs, multiple reviewers can work on different parts of your feature simultaneously, and you can keep PRs small and focused.

Development Practices

I keep my agent planning and spec-driven development work in HTML. That started as a small experiment and turned into a default.

Development Practices

Hangfire is a powerful tool that can leverage your existing backend code for setting up background jobs for .NET projects.

Development Practices

During integration of a repo that housed a web app into an existing monorepo, my software team ran into this killer tool: Git subtree.