After my first talk
I gave my first conference talk last month: twenty minutes on database migrations, to about eighty people. I rewrote the
Tools: Desk
Part three of the tools series, and the least technical one. One monitor instead of two, a keyboard I stopped tweaking,
Found, then read
Search engines decide whether a post is found; people decide whether it is read. For a long time I wrote for the first a
Small things last
The projects I still maintain all have something in common: they are small. Few dependencies, one clear job, nothing I n
Tools: Notes
Part two of the tools series. I have tried most note apps and ended up with a folder of plain markdown files and a searc
Why I stopped doing weekly reviews
For two years I spent Friday afternoons reviewing the week. The notes got longer and the changes got smaller. I replaced
A year of a side project
A year ago I started a small app to track my reading. It has eleven users, two of whom are me. A look back at what I bui