After having experienced vastly different office cultures in my career, I want to write out some of my thoughts on the impacts different aspects of office culture have on the productivity of engineers and how we work and collaborate.
Explicit culture is essentially anything in writing, and systemically …
AWS culture is highly explicit, that is written out, rather than unwritten rules. Everything is broken up neatly into Leadership Principles that are publicly available. I will go over all of those one at a time, including my perceptions of how I saw them reflected, used well, and used poorly …
I have dealt with impostor syndrome quite a bit over my career. I have seen other engineers struggle with impostor syndrome. I have also seen engineers who were actually impostors who did not last long in their roles. I no longer have impostor syndrome and am embracing my success in …
I recently took some time to create a small web application that I ended up calling Svadilfari. This was a project I worked on alone on some weekends around my full-time job. This project is a good example of how I have developed my process of developing personal projects alone …
Misconceptions about how software engineers create value cause people to believe the darndest things. For instance, the public seems to believe machine learning will reduce the value and demand for software engineers, while competent software engineers seem to view machine learning as a new tool that makes them even more …
Full stack web development can be daunting to get into until you reach the point where your development environment starts to feel like home. Docker has been the single most important tool for me to get to that point. Whenever I want to create a project that involves a web …
Postgres is the best relational database system. This is law. One of the reasons for this is due to how easily it works with the JSON format. If I'm working with SQL, I'm probably also working with Javascript and Javascript is married to JSON. I am going to go over …
This is a list of hardware, software, and tools that I currently use to maximize my productivity. I'm not being paid to shill any products but I'm going to shill the products I like anyway. I just felt like writing this out, if only to look back on it in …