From Helmets to Headsets — What Dev Teams Can Learn from the Outdoor Industry
This post might be stretching a metephor, but bear with me
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2025
Postman Reusable Scripts
I keep forgetting this.
From Adding Machines to Ambiguity: Why AI Feels So Different
RAG Systems: Compound Error is Built In
Anti-Dogma Development: A Personal Manifesto
Not everything in modern software needs to follow traditional principles like SOLID, OOP, or Agile™ to the letter. Many of us have discovered, through experi...
Rules vrs Reality
Why We Ignore Standards, and What to Do About It
Assertions vs Validation
TL:DR Key Differences
Web hygiene
In the fast-evolving world of technology, managing web content effectively is often a complex, multifaceted task. As a tech lead in a large international tec...
cURL: Validating TLS versions
I had to demonstrate that our hosting of a single page app did not accept TLS version 1.1,
Stand ups
Keeping focus on value
Deterministic Randomness & Shuffling with Seeds
TL;DR Problem: How do we shuffle an array randomly but repeatedly (same seed = same order)?
2024
OSX Tree
The tree command shows the folder structure of the current directory. Use the -d option to only show directories. The -I option lets you exclude certain dire...
Azure AppInsights Query Logs
Examples of Azure Application Insights Queries (Kusto Query Language)
Build what users want
Top 6 tactics to successful software in users hands
npm install
I needed to take a step back and fully understand this issue so I could explain it clearly to both new and experienced developers. The problem surfaced becau...
NPM Dependency Notation
Dependency notation in the package.json file influences how npm handles version installations, and this affects whether npm install may update the package-lo...
Basic patterns for 99% of development
I had to explain this to a couple of new devs on the team. Not that their code was wrong, but there is a way of approaching problems that make better sense.
Enhancing Focus with Thematic Sprints in Our Dynamic Development Team
In the fast-paced world of software development, maintaining focus is paramount. Our agile team—typically ranging from four to six members—has discovered tha...
Azure AppInsights with Nodejs adding operation id to response
Problem: I needed to add an additional response header to my requests to aid in tracking errors.
2023
Google email address
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Email
Postman and Faker
Dynamic User Creation with Postman Pre-request Scripts and Faker
try catch
Try and Catch with Typescript
Development questions
I’ve been working on compiling a set of questions we ask at the outset of each new feature. In my experience, teams can become laser-focused on coding and im...