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Back in 2021, I joined a logistics startup called Beacon. I didn't stay long, but I walked away with a company MacBook Pro M1. It should have been sent back, but a major family health emergency happened at the same time…

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Discovering podcasts Way back in the mid 2000s, I was still a mildly successful DJ under my alter ego of DJ Cruze. I was regularly travelling to Germany and playing at various clubs and I wanted to share my mixes with a…

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I laugh every year when I see this meme about updating your website footer: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1212320688050229249 If you're a developer who has come from the world of Wordpress where using PHP to dy…

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If you're like me, your early blogs were probably hosted using Wordpress. Most of my personal sites started off with a self-hosted version of Wordpress on a server that I had to maintain and update. I'm getting too old…

In the middle of January 2021, I decided to start a habit of writing. I was inspired by the #ship30for30 community I'd seen on Twitter. The hashtags were appearing daily and I thought a writing habit would be good to st…

I've never liked the title Junior Developer. I much prefer Less-Experienced Developer. It doesn't imply age. It just says "you don't have the knowledge yet". Being a Less-Experienced Developer is where we all start. We…

Being comfortable is a good thing, especially when you start a new job. You've got to know your colleagues, you've found your way around the office or if you're working remote, the company intranet. You can quickly find…

In software development, there's always been the idea of the 10x or rockstar developer. A programmer that's so talented, that they can write software in double quick time, with their eyes closed, and also in their sleep…

When I was young, I used to love watching TV when I got in from school. I was a child of the 70s and 80s here in the UK so I only had about 1.5 to 2 hours of children's TV until the soap operas and news started. I'd eat…

I had an interesting catch up with a wonderful colleague, Blanca Garcia Gil, today. We talked about the role of a software engineering team lead and also about giving and receiving feedback. After giving me a compliment…

The dictionary defines success as: “The accomplishment of an aim or purpose” Everyone wants to feel successful. But what does it mean to you? What is the aim or purpose of your life? Peter Drucker, one of the great theo…

I went to the Lead Developer Conference back in 2019. Pat Kau gave a fantastic talk called "Flavours of technical leadership". In the talk, he shared different ways that engineering leaders develop and make a difference…

People have talked about remote working in the technology industry for many years. Some companies, such as Basecamp, GitHub, and GitLab have embraced it for years whilst others have pushed back, expecting most teams to…

Teams want to write great code. They want to communicate and collaborate on their software. Sharing code via a pull request is a great way to present your code for review by your peers. A pull request is a way to create…

I recently attended an "away day" for the leadership team of our department. In early 2021, an "away day" obviously means another set of Zoom meetings. It was a great day of digging into the challenges of the team and t…

At the end of last year I converted my DJ Cruze website from Wordpress to Eleventy. Much like this website, it's easy to deploy using Netlify. Moving to a statically generated site made it much easier to update and avoi…

We often think of learning as something we do at school, college, or university. You learn new skills as you start your career but often, people stop thinking they need to continue as they get older. It often feels like…