I've written before on the problems of hero culture. It is still my favorite post that I've written because it hits so close to home for me. Every situation in that post is hypothetical, but based on a real situation I had to deal with myself. Unfor...
2018-01-28 How Developers Make Their Jobs Harder Software development is hard. Bugs and inaccurate time estimates are a fact of life. Software is too complex these days for things to go exactly as we’d like. However, developers often add to the diffi...
2019-09-30 Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews I find it distressing that more and more companies using personality tests in their interview process. My colleagues mentioned that they have seen this trend increase as well. They note that...
2021-11-14 Interview Performance Does Not Equal Job Performance This is a conversation I had when I was interviewing a few years ago: Interviewer: “Yeah, a lot of candidates actually have trouble with this problem because it never shows up in the sof...
2021-12-05 Solving Common Concurrency Problems Concurrency is a notorious cause of really frustrating bugs. Most software bugs are consistent. If you do X, then Y, then Z, you get Bug A. You can get race conditions with concurrency though. That’s bas...
2021-12-19 The Perils of Programming Magic Photo by Artem Maltsev Abstractions are a necessary part of software development. Not having them would make certain things ridiculous. Imagine building an e-commerce store for books and writing code for ea...