work-life-balance All You Did Was Go To Wichita? On The Importance of Leaving Work at Work My family and I just got back from a week-long vacation to visit my extended family in Wichita, Kansas. (Yes, fine, I'll brace for the inevitable "You took a vacation and all
musings Technical Debt and the Rewrite-In-Place 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 to
developers-life All Code Is Disposable, Just As It Should Be My recent post 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
work-life-balance I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You!) I've been thinking quite a bit about a particular tweet from Safia Abdalla: A perhaps unpopular opinion (and a little ironic coming from me).You don’t have to write blog posts, contribute
musings The New Guy Is A Better Coder Than Me, And That's Wonderful There's this new guy on our team. He's really smart. Probably smarter than me. Should I be worried about him trying to take my job?
