Disclaimer: All opinions are my own I’ve been interviewing software engineers for about 6 years now. I’ve done dozens (probably edging toward hundreds) of interviews and there’s something I’d like to say to candidates: Please, please, please, keep your self-introduction short. Interviews live in this weird space between, “Friendly conversation…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results I swear I first heard this quote on Disney Channel Original Movie: The Genius, but the quotes section and a few quick Google searches can neither confirm nor deny that…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own I’m a CICD enthusiast. I bought into the DevOps ideology not long after graduating with a Computer Science B.S. and decide to take on an operations role at the company I was working for (you can’t do “DevOps” without having done some actual, “Ops”…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Everybody is software has a customer of some kind. Whether you call them clients, customers, users, partners, money-senders, or anything else, every software engineer has a consumer of the service they offer. I’ve been through the pattern I’m about to describe at least half…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own After working for a little over a decade as a software engineer I’ve come to believe there is a direct relationship between how stressful your current work is, and how funny you find new stressful events. I’ve come to call this the “stress-comedy curve”…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own As a software engineer, you will spend a surprising amount of your career talking to non-technical people about technical things. Depending on your role you might find yourself in any of these scenarios Explaining an emergency bug fix for your manager Talking to a…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Another disclaimer — I’m being a little obtuse in this post to make a point, I realize that different languages fit different problems. As the saying goes, “If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.” But I think…

With a pokemon API example — Disclaimer: All opinions are my own A while back I wrote about using Powershell's handy Invoke-WebRequest method and bypassing the certificate check, but there’s another useful Powershell method related to invoking web methods: Invoke-RestMethod The full docs are here, but it’s very similar to Invoke-WebRequest with the difference of what…

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own Working as a software engineer can be tense in some unique ways. Writing software is almost entirely an abstract mental exercise that involves constantly trying to make your mental models fit the behavior of your software. When you find out that your mental model…