PostgreSQL • Oct 13, 2025 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 • Oct 12, 2025 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 • Oct 11, 2025 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 • Oct 10, 2025 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 • Oct 09, 2025 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 • Oct 08, 2025 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!
The Software Life • Oct 07, 2025 Cut the Cord: Create Your Own Cloud Storage Follow the steps in this tutorial and then... congratulations! You have now created your own private cloud storage application.
Exploratory Testing • Oct 06, 2025 Use JUnit Parameterized Tests to Force Test Coverage Here's how unit tests using JUnit parameterized tests helped catch a couple of would-be bugs and kept our tests manageable and readable.
The Software Life • Oct 05, 2025 Here Are 3 Lessons I Learned in Sales That You Can Apply to Software Engineering Here's how the sales experience creates better software engineers. Learn why interpersonal skills, tenacity, and persuasion matter.
The Software Life • Oct 04, 2025 4 Core Truths of a Great Software Partner Create a culture of consulting excellence by delivering professional expertise, partnership skills, business acumen, and thought leadership.
Project & Team Management • Oct 03, 2025 How I Know When It’s Time to Add Lightweight QA on a Startup Project Discover the signs it’s time to add QA and learn lightweight practices that build confidence without slowing delivery.
Artificial Intelligence • Oct 02, 2025 3 Trends in Conversational Web Interfaces Once users get comfortable using chat interfaces, we're going to similar kinds of interfaces show up in all sorts of ways in our web apps.
