Restful Sleep: The Ultimate Debugger
Coding can be tough. Even the best get stuck with tricky errors. But many forget one helpful trick: sleep. Software engineers often work late. We get so into our work, we think,...
Archive October 2023
Posts published in October 2023.
Embrace the Unknowns
The first time I landed in a country where I couldn't read a single sign, I spent twenty minutes staring at a metro map trying to figure out which train went toward the city cen...
Hiring Harmony
Hiring is drag. Every open role slows the people around it, creates coverage gaps, and pulls your best performers into interviews instead of work. The instinct is to close that...
Estimation Accuracy
Estimating software projects is basically the tech equivalent of arguing about Irish weather. Everyone has an opinion, nobody really knows anything, and the forecast changes all...
Why Legacy Systems Are Worth Your Time
I know. When you hear legacy, you think , , weird edge cases, and “what the hell just broke now.” Every moment feels frustrating. You don’t know what the next change will trigge...
Why Metrics Don’t Equal Quality
In 1902, Hanoi was drowning in rats. The government was getting nervous about plague. Hence, the city put a bounty per rat tail. Suddenly, the system had a scoreboard, something...
A Sunny Day in Edinburgh
My alarm went off at 4:45 in the morning so I could catch a flight from Dublin to Edinburgh. It was one of those days that starts a bit brutally, but once you are moving, you ar...