I'm Ris .
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I am a software engineer and Scrum Master who likes practical systems. I write aboutdevelopment, DevOps, and career growth, plus the human side of tech. You will also find recipes built for weeknights, deadlines, and the occasional late-night deploy.
What Our Flag Means Death taught me about celebrating diversity
Stede Bonnet is a terrible pirate. He's wealthy, he's polite, he's read too many books, and he'd rather talk about feelings than plunder anything. He leaves his family, buys a ship, calls himself the Gentleman Pirate, and sets off to be someone else. The joke of Our Flag Means Death is that he's wildly unqualified. The surprise is what the show does with that joke. It lets the people around him be unqualified in their own ways, and then it builds a home out of all of it.
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currents to follow
Craft, leadership, agile practice, and the quieter work of staying grounded while you do all three.
Development
Practical engineering notes on shipping faster, reducing friction, and keeping systems easy to maintain.
- Automation & scripting
- Git internals
- Modern web frameworks
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Database design
Career growth
Straight talk on growing your career, leading without title, and building trust with the people around you.
- Technical leadership
- Career transitions
- Mentoring approaches
- Building expertise
Scrum & agile
Field-tested Scrum and agile practices for teams that want fewer meetings and better outcomes.
- Ceremonies & facilitation
- Agile transformation
- Team dynamics
- Continuous improvement
Health & balance
Burnout prevention, boundaries, and habits that help you do good work without draining yourself.
- Mental health awareness
- Work-life balance
- Stress management
- Sustainable habits
Remote work
How distributed teams stay aligned: clean async habits, useful rituals, and communication that actually lands.
- Home office setup
- Async communication
- Remote leadership
- Work-life boundaries
Personal
Personal essays about identity, growth, and the real-life mess that sits behind a tech career.
- Life lessons
- Neurodivergent perspectives
- Identity & growth
- Honest reflections
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