Tag: Rants
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Using Automatic Labels in Your Monorepo
Are you an engineering manager or DevOps engineer supporting teams working in a monorepo? Do you happen to use GitHub for source control? If…
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It’s Time to Retire Your Stand Up Meetings
The daily scrum stand up meetings need to end. – Me, for the last 5 years There, I said it. Actually I’ve been saying…
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Home Lab: Automation and Backups Save the Day
Technically, automation actually broke the day first, but if it weren’t for the automation and backups, I would have been in a world of…
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Removing “Golden Fences” From Your Engineering Organization
This post is part 2 of a series on how you can take advantage of processes and tooling that large public open-source projects have…
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Why I HomeLab
I’ve been a geek for the vast majority of my life. My family got our first computer when I was 13 (a Commodore 64…
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Scaling Software Engineering Teams
This post is part 1 of a series on how you can take advantage of processes and tooling that large public open-source projects have…
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Software Engineering – It’s All Hard
There’s an inside joke among software developers that goes something like “naming things is hard.” That’s certainly true. I can’t count the number of…
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Gettin’ off my duff
Well, at least partially. Since there are so many different ways that could be interpreted, let me explain. I’ve worked at home almost all…
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Reason for the Silence
Wowzers! It’s been 10 months since I create a post on my blog! There is a good reason for that, I promise. I’m obviously…
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Can you be too object-oriented for your client’s good?
Unless you’ve been coding under a rock since ColdFusion 4.5, you’ve likely noticed the massive momentum behind object-oriented design and development in the ColdFusion…