Did I Just Ask For A Demotion?
I just asked my boss to demote me. Not because I failed. Not because I was fired. Because after three years as an Engineering Manager, ...
Posts tagged: Engineering
Management Is Not Leadership
It is a common pattern: The technical lead/most senior engineer on the team takes on people management as an afterthought, only later to find out ...
Running Django's Javascript Tests
Django has lots of tests, and wide range of types: unit tests with Unittest UI/Selenium tests Screenshots Javascript QUnit tests I recently dug into an ...
Don't Be That Person: A Maintainer's Perspective on Code Change Reviews
What most people underestimate about open source is that creating a PR is only the first hurdle to jump through. For better or worse, contributing ...
Groupthink In Engineering Teams
What is Groupthink? As defined by Wikipedia , groupthink is: a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for ...
My Simple Obsidian to Github Pages Writing Workflow
Writing is hard. But so is publishing your writing. And much like software, publishing is the analog of "going to production" ie. only when your ...