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It's been more than five years since my last musical goals post, where I set some process-oriented goals, in addition to my longer-term outcome-oriented ones. I share my journey, progress on the old goals, and set some new ones.

It is well known that YAML has a Norway problem, where the country code NO is interpreted as boolean false. But did you know about YAML's related implicit conversion of numbers footgun?

The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts, a subcategory of legacy code that is highly resistant to change despite being well-designed and performing a critical function. It provides insights into the challenges engineer

I share how I tackled the challenge of reducing cycle time for getting pull requests approved within my team, using the first habit from "7 Habits of Highly Effective People": Be Proactive.

I've played guitar for 25 years, but I'm unable to play fast. Can Troy Grady's Cracking The Code change that?

Introducing a Guide to Personal Retrospectives---a post on our company blog I co-wrote with my colleague Cian.

I review the book by Julia Galef---about the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were.

From now on there will be only abstracts in the RSS feed. Sorry. Update: I've tried to assign a permalink, despite the RSS-only announcement, in the hope this post won't show up as a new item every time I update the site.

In 2013 I worked at NET-A-PORTER, where we ran a year-long graduate program. Participants did three-month rotations with four teams, getting experience with different parts of our business. I volunteered to run a workshop introducing them to shell program