Postcards From a Dev Manager

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Feature Flags

Oct 22, 20252 min read

Make Your Staff Meetings Memorable with This Prize Idea

Aug 12, 20252 min read

Managing Security Issues with Microservices

Patch. Test. Ship. Repeat.

Apr 30, 20262 min read

Good Ol' Switch Statements

Aug 5, 20252 min read

Pipelines and Testing

Jul 10, 20254 min read

Minor Rant Against AI Marketing

At this point, it seems well-established that “AI” and “artificial intelligence” are arguably not the same thing anymore. Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated the conversation and the hype has been massive. AI has come to equal LLM which has l...

Jul 3, 20252 min read

User Stories

For some reason, the hardest thing for me

Apr 11, 20253 min read

One of My Favorite Sayings

I’m reading a book called “Essential Scrum” by Kenneth S. Rubin. Leaders and individual contributors at my current employer are using the text as our definitive guide to how we want to do agile software development. I’m in chapter 5 today which is ti...

Mar 18, 20252 min read

What's in a Word?

I’m reading a book called “Transformed” by Marty Cagan. In one part of the book, the author shares his belief that the word “collaboration” has nearly lost all meaning due to overuse. The author tries to solidify the definition of the word for the pu...

Sep 22, 20242 min read

Tips for Effective Performance Reviews

I recently completed my mid-year performance reviews for my team members. Most of the time, I enjoy the performance review season. I like allocating time for documenting the wins and opportunities for my team. It’s also a good time to review goals an...

Sep 18, 20244 min read

(Mis-)Use Cases for AI

I might have to make this a series

Sep 9, 20242 min read

Command Palette

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