Daily Coping 12 Sep 2022

Today’s coping tip is to forgive yourself when things go wrong. A theme of being better to myself, starting with last Thur and Fri. What’s gone wrong for me?...

Regenerating the Master Key

The Challenge of Early Tech Decisions

We often live with our early decisions on technology, which can be a challenge over time.

Daily Coping 9 Sep 2022

Today’s coping tip is to let go of self-criticism and speak to yourself kindly. This tip follows on nicely from yesterday’s tip, just the other side of that one....

Fixing Impostor Syndrome

Lessons on impostor syndrome from a marketer apply to technologists as well.

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Daily Coping 8 Sep 2022

Today’s tip is to notice the things you do well, however small. I think I have a lot of room for improvement, and it’s easy to self-criticize and find...

An Interesting Conversion

Daily Coping 7 Sep 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Developer Optimism

Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear for the problem being solved. Often developers think they've considered the various ways this code […]