Your "by yourself" point is important.  If an improvement relies on others, I focus on what is in it for them and what it will cost them.

Cost includes time, money,...

What I hate is when someone needs to be fired and the company won't let them go. A while back I worked for a company that was 24/7 in...

Occasionally our GitHub workflow based CI/CD pipeline would hit the default AWS resource quota for VPCs.  The Terraform teardown process was blocked as some components in the VPC have to...

There is a conflict between people doing the reviews and people requiring the reviews.  They interrupt the flow.

I would prefer a PR that is small and focused, but that requires...

Working for a consultancy means I must keep my certifications up to date.  Pressures of work often mean that I am not in the frame of mind to absorb what...

I've volunteered to be a guest speaker at the Architecting Manchester meetup this Thursday.  My talk is called "PebbleOps: A Mission to Remove the Small Stuff That Slows Us Down".

I've...

I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.  I shared a link to his "Two stops short of Dagenham" article earlier this week as one of my favourite IT stories.

Robot originating from the Czech word meaning forced labour, so servant master?

I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service...

So far, it isn't taking my job either because a lot of what I do is working out what people actually mean in their requirements spec and challenging the bits...

An awful lot of the uses of AI feel like leaning a ladder on the branch of a tall tree, then climbing it to saw the branch nearest the trunk.

My last few 3 jobs I got because (apart from knowing my craft) people I knew asked if I would be interested in joining them.  The job market is highly...

I had a night out with a group of friends who have scaled the career heights and ended up at the director level in large organisations.  They have been there,...

My company uses BitWarden as a central password manager.  This can generate random, strong passwords or pass phrases of whatever length or complexity is required.

We have personal vaults and company...

I wish that a more business-oriented name had been proposed rather than 'tech debt'.  Something that conveys the friction that tech debt introduces into what the business really cares about.

Some...

If the service is free, then the data you put in is their product.