November 12, 2022

All My Best Tips For Expertly Reviewing Your Own Code

Great developers review their own code often and effectively. In this post, I’ll share a checklist of all my best tips for maximizing this important practice.

November 9, 2022

Deliver a Great Standup Report as an Engineer

I’ve been lucky to have worked with some great engineers, and one thing that they tend to do exceptionally well is reporting about their work at meetings. Today I’d like to summarize what I think makes a great standup report.

October 27, 2022

How to Write a Resume for Transitioning to Programming

You have experience in another field. You want to be a programmer. You need a resume that helps you do that.

October 26, 2022

Solving Exercism's Resistor Color Trio in TypeScript

Today I completed the ‘Resistor Color Trio’ TypeScript exercise on Exercism. Here’s my solution.

October 26, 2022

Vim Scratchpad Part 2

Today, I’d like to dive deeper into a part of my practice: using a persisted text file for jotting things down. In this post, I’ll explain the ‘why’ behind this technique, and provide an updated version of it.

October 25, 2022

Buy the Best Hardware You Can

Some advice I offer people entering the programming profession is to buy the best hardware you can. You’re going to need it.

October 24, 2022

Solving Exercism's Resistor Color Duo in TypeScript

Today as a code kata I completed the ‘Resistor Color Duo’ TypeScript exercise on Exercism. Here’s my work.

October 21, 2022

Print Last Exit Code

The exit code of a command in a Unix-based system is an important and easy-to-miss piece of data. It isn’t printed to standard out; you have to go looking for it. I find it useful to inspect this information when debugging or considering chaining unfamiliar commands.

October 21, 2022

You Can't Change Nothing

I saw a meme this week: a person debugging code, “My code doesn’t work. Let’s change nothing and run it again.”

This is something that I’ve done. It seems pointless. But that’s not quite correct.

October 19, 2022

Read the Docs

When learning a new language or framework, the first thing I do is read the official documentation cover-to-cover.