What makes strong engineers strong?

You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback loop of writing and running code is so…

Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…

Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…

My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…

For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…