A New Word: Harmonoia

harmonoia – n. an itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful – when everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness...

Creating an Empty Repo in GitHub–#SQLNewBlogger

I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure DevOps. They got a conflict, which I’ll show and then get you started with an...

Restore and Upgrade With NoRecovery

You Always Have a Software Pipeline

If you build software for customers, you have a pipeline. It might not be good, but you have one. Steve recommends you work to make sure this is a repeatable, reliable pipeline.

Modern Development

In some ways, development tasks haven't changed much in decades, but in others the way we build software has changed a lot, especially with regards to data.

The Low Deadlock Priority

An Important Break

I left home last Tuesday for work, heading to New Jersey for work. Over the weekend, I took a side trip to see my daughter play volleyball at university,...

How Much Code Can You Review?

Code reviews are a part of many developers' lives, but is there a limit to what you can do effectively?

Optimized Locking

A New Word: Ringlorn

ringlorn – adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as one depicted in old stories and folktales – a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths...