These are my longer essays.
There’s an enviable quality of great engineers I’ve known: they seem to get things right the first time. When you ask them to do something, and they say “It’s done”, it is, almost always. How? ...
This year I’ve run over 25 Scrum refinement meetings; here’s what I’ve learned. ...
Anytime you’re making a list at work, rank it. ...
Acceptance criteria, or AC, describe what a feature or bugfix does. Writing them is an art, and some AC work much better than others. So, how do we make them work? By including a little more detail. ...
Shift to a proactive mindset by making predictions before any experiments in a debugging session. ...
Consider this scenario. You’ve been given some work, and you’re stuck. Hours have become days. You’ve exhausted the internet. You’re starting to backtrack, delete work, and start over. Feeling defeated. To make matters worse, you haven’t told anybody. ...
Today I want to talk about a way I think about debugging: as a story that we tell to ourselves and each other. ...
Want to learn a tricky topic and sharpen your learning skills at the same time? In this post, I’ll use the Feynman Learning Technique— a method of learning complex things by explaining them simply— with a sprinkle of LLM magic, to deepen my understanding of JavaScript promises. ...
I’m proud to announce the launch of my digital guide to software debugging, Don’t Stay Stuck: A Debugging Guide for Rising Engineers! ...
Today I gave a talk to my team about the Twelve-Factor App Methodology. ...