Long time readers of my blog will have noticed that I'm a total Nintendo fanboy [https://exceptionnotfound.net/how-my-5-year-old-taught-me-the-value-of-pair-programming/]. I've owned all of their consoles from the SNES onward, including the Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, and now the Switch. I can still remember the joy of Super Mario
My group just finished up a massive year-and-a-half-long rewrite of a major project. I've blogged about events during this project several times before, from a stupid bug and a plea for help [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/a-stupid-bug-and-a-plea-for-help/] to reminding my boss that junior developers are awesome [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/
My recent post I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You!) [https://exceptionnotfound.net/i-am-a-9-to-5-developer-and-so-can-you/] is getting WAY more traffic than I expected, and I am both humbled and excited that so many people in our profession seem to feel the same way that I do: namely,
I've been thinking quite a bit about a particular tweet from Safia Abdalla [https://twitter.com/captainsafia]: > A perhaps unpopular opinion (and a little ironic coming from me). You don’t have to write blog posts, contribute to open source, give technical talks, or anything else to be a capable
My team is in the process of refactoring a large application that we want to deploy to our production environment soon. I've just been assigned as lead developer to this project, since the prior lead got another job in a different state, and I've been digging through the code to