Of the developers I have known, the best of them have hobbies outside of work that involve creating things.

I love both the problem-solving and building aspects of what I do. ...

I'm surprised that JIRA still does not allow more than one person to be assigned a ticket.  Where I work we frequently pair up to work on a ticket.

I'm finding...

Time makes more converts than reason.

I think you have to be older to appreciate the truth in that Thomas Paine quote.  That is in the same vein as

A child doesn’t...

The harder a technical task is, the more value there is in spending time simplifying it first, then automating it.  Especially if it resists simplification.

A black box is great until...

Loads from Terry Pratchet

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign...

I would love an AI agent to fill in timesheets.  It is an onerous task at best.  My role requires me to be spread across many projects and duties.  I'm...

WOW, Steve, I didn't realize that the world is moving in a direction like this. I trust you when you say people (companies) are adopting multiple database platforms that...

A friend got a job and found that the answer to "What DB platforms are you using?  SQL Server, PostGres, Oracle, DB/2, RedShift, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake?" was Yes.  In other...

When things are hectic, we don't have the time to explore what we can improve in our development process, even though this has a rapid payback.

One of my colleagues used...

There was a post on LinkedIn that argued that DORA metrics are not a measure of productivity.  The argument was that these metrics measure the speed and success of deployments...

The longer elevated privileges are allowed the harder it becomes to remove them.

Apps get written on the assumption of elevated privileges and any initiative to reduce privileges turns into a...

Every setting has a reason for its existence, even if its just for an edge case.

I wish that, for any tech, there was an explicit set of edge case documents...

I've seen several tools that have started as side-of-desk development to make an individual's life easier.  What started as one person's "make my life easier" project grew to become something...

Walk a mile in someone else's shoes!

A senior infrastructure colleague used to describe people's attitude to infrastructure as being paid for in wooden dollars.  To non-infrastructure people, the real cost...

I worry that there has been a transition from putting in extra hours to get ahead to putting in extra hours just to stop falling behind.

An elite athlete will tell...