TL;DR Be a good custodian and make sure people can find stuff. Don’t “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the…
I’ve migrated this blog from Ghost to Hugo. Primarily because it’s updated so infrequently that every time I even thought about maybe writing something (yes, very committal) Ghost would need an update. Most recently, and the final straw, was it got stuck in a dependency loop of needing a Node…
Or, why I dislike squash merges. Tralfamadorians have the ability to experience reality in four dimensions; meaning, roughly, that they have total access to past, present, and future; they are able to perceive any point in time at will. Kurt Vonnegut The code usually tells you the what and sometimes…
I had a VPS on a popular developer-centric cloud platform. It started out life as Ubuntu 14, several years ago, and predates my learning about IaC, Terraform and Ansible. After starting work at a hosting company, I thought I may as well migrate my stuff over. And so, the headache…
It wasn’t waterfall. It wasn’t scrum. It was both and it was neither and it was doomed to fail from the get-go. Once you’ve been doing this for a while, you’ll understand that pretty much every aspect of the discipline, at least in a professional setting, has a trade-off. To…