The history of my blog If you look back through my historic posts (many of which I’ve recently migrated here from my historic blog spot blog), you’ll notice that I’ve been blogging, on and off, since 2007. That’s actually not true - I had done some previous blogging on another platform (all now lost), and actually I’d written occasional thoughts on various “home pages” going all the way back to 1995....
Software Engineers don’t scale … or how I learned to stop worrying and love commenting my code. NOTE: I originally published this on the Inside Heetch blog This article, by Mathew Skelton and Manuel Pais, reminds me that, for everything that’s been made simpler in this era of cloud computing and micro-services, we’ve paid a price in terms of cognitive load. We simply need to keep more context in mind when making or evaluating any change to our code....
Those of you who know me may be aware that at the end of August 2018, I left my job at Avocet to join a new team at Heetch. The main allure of the role at Heetch was the chance to be part of a team deliberately set up to act as a catalyst for product developers. The concept under which we work is known as “Developer Care”, and back in November I wrote a fairly extensive blog post for Heetch about what that means and how it came to be....