Gear I use to live and travel lightly

General rules to use when doing software architecture.

Notes about the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle.

Paring my library down to five.

A review of my favourite book of 2022.

Demystifying the principles behind the title.

It doesn't have to be all meetings and time blocks.

There is no excuse at this stage.

Eliminate and simplify. Specifically, your retrospective meetings.

Reclaiming my data and building my corner of the internet.

Websites I like reading

If you are struggling to implement CI/CD in your team, here is how to do it.

Rate limits are not a silver bullet for spam. Here is why, and how to address spam concerns.

My Salary history

Estimations are something we do daily. But they are estimations, not deadlines as many believe. Where did we go wrong?

What worked and what didn't.

How to remove a specific key from an object, even in nested structures

As devs, we want to create things that outlive us. Here's why you shouldn't worry.

Interviews are for both parties. These are questions to ask to make sure the role is a great fit.

All the books I own

Slow down, there is always more to do.

It can often seem like you're stuck in a rut where you can not progress further. Here is how to get out of the mid-level and onto the next stage of your career

Why quarterly based planning is perfect for keeping you happy, healthy and productive.

Microservices are the defacto standard for large scale systems. But is it always the right choice?

Learn how to stick to development principles when the rest of your team doesn't.

Engineers often look down upon recruiters, here's why you shouldn't.

Mistakes and pitfalls that I fell into when learning to become a software developer.

Time and distance doesn't need to prevent your team being collaborative

Be the hero of your team and face the monster that is legacy systems.

Releasing new versions of software be a panic-inducing experience. Here's how to ship faster quickly and calmly

How to cache Auth0 M2M Tokens to extend your free plan

Figuring out how you work best, is a superpower.

Your product is in huge demand! Quick hire more staff. Or, maybe don't - here is why.

Why you should strive for beauty in software, why it's forgotten and how to make software beautiful.

You need to update your API, but Terraform holds the container definition. What do you do?

Web performance is a vital part of your business to ensure customers keep returning. But, it can be difficult to get the time for it. Here's a guide on how to improve your website's performance on a deadline

How to use Azure Pipelines to migrate and seed your databases

The keyboard is the primary interface between my brain and the computer. So increasing the bandwidth of this connection is super valuable. In this post, I dig into why I started practising typing daily and how you can start

How I reduced our GitHub Actions jobs from 13 minutes to less than 3

Some thoughts on NIH, Boilerplate code and Solving core problems

How to use mdspell and GitHub Actions to spellcheck your markdown blog

The definitive guide on how to setup LightHouse CI for your React app inside GitHub Actions or any other CI provider

What to do when you've messed up at work... big time.

My shutdown routine to leave me clear, and ready for tomorrow

10 red flags to avoid when writing your resumé

A letter to my 17-year-old self on how to become a software developer.

Scheduling can be maddening, here's how to make commitments more reliably

A story about how I redesigned my site for accessibility, privacy and performance - to reach a perfect 100 in the Google Page speed insights score.

Simple Cron for downloading your favorite Youtube playlist

How we analysed performance pain points and improved them

How to use RDS Snapshots and get access to your data

Error messages are a critical part of your systems user experience. Here's how to craft error messages your users would be happy to see.

Creating Application health checks seems simple, but is easy to get wrong. Here's how to create an awesome health check for your Application or API

Forwarding data on to a third party sounds easy but has a lot of potholes you can easily get stuck in.

Why we chose to combine over 3 microservices into one central API

How a seemingly simple problem was more challenging than expected

How we successfully preserved links across our system whilst migrating domains

In the 'move fast, and break things' world, backwards compatibility has been cast into the realms of insignificance, but here is why it's so important even now

How I took my ZSH load times from 1.5 seconds to 0.19 seconds

How to use private github packages in your TravisCI jobs

How to use gitleaks in TravisCI to monitor secrets