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2026
15 Articles- Introducing Git Revenge, and whether you should use it
- The cost of maintaining open source
- What Our Flag Means Death taught me about celebrating diversity
- Is there a future without AI?
- What Dolly Parton Taught Me, and What She Would Want Us to Do Now
- The Accommodations Nobody Tells You to Ask For
- Scope Creep Is a Goal-Setting Failure
- Velocity Didn't Fail. It Worked Too Well.
- Staying Human, Using AI as a tool not a personality
- Introducing "Ink and Agency" a skill pack for humans (and claude)
- Steel, Rivers, and Rewrites: What Pittsburgh Taught Me About Building Things That Last
- Working With Your Brain, Not Against It: ADHD and Software Development
- You knew the answer and you didn't say it
- Why Resident Alien gets imposter syndrome right (and what your team can do about it)
- What Yellowjackets taught me about development teams (and why you should never work in survival mode)
2025
33 Articles- What Ted Lasso taught me as a scrum master
- Stop Managing Projects with Scrum; Start Managing Conversations
- The Sprint Planning Boss Battle: Why Every Story Point Estimate Is a Dice Roll
- The 14 Personality Types Every Scrum Master Encounters (And How to Work With Each One)
- Scrumgeons & Dragons: Why Your Development Team Is Just a Really Organized D&D Party
- When Team Members Check Out: A Scrum Master's Guide to Re-engagement
- working with git: archive
- The Scrum Master's Paradox: Leading Without Authority While Battling Self-Doubt
- Courage as a Scrum Value: The Catalyst for Real Transparency
- Surprise Driven Development
- Traits of a great Scrum Master: curiosity
- Scrum, reduce constraints without adding more people
- Effective Listening for Scrum Masters
- The Neurodivergent Developer's Guide to Thriving in Agile Ceremonies
- What's in a .git? A Deep Dive into Git's Hidden Engine
- Git Worktrees: Multiple Branches, Zero Context Switching
- Walking Back with Git: HEAD^ vs HEAD~ Demystified
- The Evolution of Scrum Masters: From Ceremony Runners to Strategic Enablers
- New Project Release: Pride Flags
- The Modern Office Playbook for Managing Job Stress
- Git commits as documentation
- Git Diff Deep Dive: Choosing the Right Algorithm for Your Workflow
- The Autism "Epidemic" Myth: Why We're Just Getting Better at Recognition
- Git Notes & Trailers: The Hidden Features You Should Be Using
- Crafting the Perfect Sprint Retrospective
- A Val Farewell: How Val Kilmer Shaped My World
- Essential Questions Every New Scrum Master Should Ask
- Git Merge vs Git Rebase: Understanding the Perfect Integration Strategy
- Shadows -- Remembering Carl Dean
- Energizing Your Sprint Retrospectives: A Guide to Meaningful Team Reflection
- The Importance of Solitude for a Balanced Life
- MFA on the Command Line with PowerShell
- Practical Conversation Tips for Easing Social Anxiety
2024
9 Articles- The Aftermath of Burnout: How to Rejuvenate Yourself
- Embracing Vulnerability and Honesty to Boost Collaboration at Work
- How to Cope With Panic Attacks
- Discovering Your Self-Worth Despite Challenging Circumstances
- Dealing with the Anticipation of an Upcoming Event
- Embracing the Past: A Journey Through Overcoming Regrets
- Breaking Barriers: What is Holding You Back from Achieving Your Goals?
- Celebrating Timnit Gebru
- A Journey Towards Self-Improvement: My Threefold Mission
2023
5 Articles2022
32 Articles- Twitter Updates
- How to update all your software at once with Winget
- Meeting with your boss, made easy
- Fixing bad SSH keys
- 7 Habits of a healthy marriage
- How to calculate estimated reading time
- Become more likable
- What is anxiety?
- Planning your digital marketing strategy
- Loading Visual Studio environment in your default PowerShell profile
- Quick tips for battling depression
- The Diversity problem in Open-Source projects
- Becoming an effective open source maintainer
- 5 ways to reduce anxiety while waiting for big news
- How to learn online marketing at home
- Redirecting pages in jekyll (Without Plugins)
- 9 steps for building quality backlinks
- Display all environment variables with powershell
- Five ways of handling negative habits in children
- Expert job interview tips
- Five Reasons to Focus on the Now
- You might be overthinking things
- A new start
- Remote work organization strategies
- 8 ways to do local SEO, without building content
- How to make your resume stand out from the crowd
- Factors that affect On-Page and Off-Page SEO
- SEO vs PPC Advertising
- Four tips for avoiding seasonal depression
- Two years already
- How to improve communication with your boss
- Take control of your next interview
2021
84 Articles- Finding purpose at your job
- 7 ways to combat work stress
- Dealing with gossip in the workplace
- 7 strategies for embracing change in the workplace
- Dealing with rejection during your job search
- How to work with difficult people
- 13 Practical Ways to Live Your Dream(s) Without Quitting Your Day Job
- How to Command Respect From Others
- Read this before you reject a job offer
- Strategies for Weekend Job Hunting
- The Secret to Applying for Jobs when You are Underqualified
- Leaving a job gracefully
- How to write a great resume
- How to shine in your new job
- Eight easy ways to boost your career
- Your LinkedIn headshot may be holding you back
- Managing friendships in the workplaces
- Advance your career by being your unconventional self
- Ace your next phone interview
- Staying focused while working remotely
- Dealing with ADHD at work
- Writing an effective self-assessment
- How to rebuild your confidence after a job setback
- tips for landing a promotion while working remotely
- Building a remote culture
- How to make the most out of working from home
- How to advance your career outside of the office
- How to showcase unpaid work experience on your resume
- Git Tip of the day -- Remove accidentally added files
- Five workplace health hazards that could be silently sabotaging your productivity
- Seven job hunting strategies that actually work (and why most people get them wrong)
- How to handle workplace criticism like a senior developer
- Video meeting fatigue is a performance issue (and how to debug it)
- Your home office setup is sabotaging your job search (and how to fix it)
- Managing up when your boss is a remote API (and how to optimize the connection)
- No spare room? How to architect a productive workspace in any living situation
- Master Remote Work: A Developer's Guide to Home Office Success
- 4 Tips to get your resume noticed
- Find What App is Hogging Your Port: A Developer's Detective Guide
- The Three Faces of Developer Burnout: A Field Guide to Recovery
- Navigating Difficult Coworkers: A Systems Approach to Team Harmony
- Self-Coaching vs. Professional Coaching: A Developer's Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Performance Reviews: From Anxiety to Advocacy (A Developer's Guide)
- Public speaking 101
- Changing your career after 40
- Be active not passive
- Foster a grateful heart
- Teach emotional intelligence
- What are the best ways to parent
- Kids will be as successful as you believe they can be
- Mistakes are okay
- Be firm but fair
- Why You Need Family Expectations and Values
- You are a parent not a friend
- How to set effective career goals
- 10 Practical ways to grow your gratitude
- The Debug Mindset: How Gratitude Rewired My Brain
- Building Inclusive Teams: What I Learned Leading Diverse Groups in Tech
- Life Architecture: Why You Need a Personal Strategy Framework
- Strategic Thinking vs. Reactive Living: Lessons from Leading Tech Teams
- Strategic Living: The Operating System for Better Decisions
- The Hidden Cost of Reactive Living: What You Miss Without Strategic Thinking
- Building Your Personal Strategy: A Systems Approach to Life Planning
- The Strategic Living Transformation: From Chaos to Clarity
- Getting Started with Strategic Living: A Practical Implementation Guide
- Resume Marketing: What Hollywood Trailers Teach Us About Technical Storytelling
- Remote Work Isolation: Engineering Human Connection in Distributed Teams
- The Accessibility Details That Matter: Why Punctuation in Alt Text Shows You Care
- Strategic Life Patterns: Three Frameworks for Decision Architecture
- Architecting a Strategic Life: Engineering Principles for Personal Development
- Engineering Your Life: A Systems Approach to Strategic Planning
- Finding your way back from burnout: A developer's guide to recovery
- Reduce stress by doing less
- Why Gratitude Practice Actually Works (And How to Build One That Sticks)
- Building Your Personal Brand in Tech: A Developer's Practical Guide
- Developing Emotional Intelligence
- How to Have Gratitude Every Day
- 5 Benefits of Gratitude
- 8 steps to Create a better work life balance
- The benefits of being a mentor
- Amplify unheard voices in the open-source community
- The mental health elephant in tech teams
- Twelve tips to stay productive when you are just too busy
- Virtual interview tips
2020
14 Articles- Coping with burnout
- Eight Dimensions of burnout
- Automatically Update WSL on Startup
- Developer Productivity Tips: Your Complete Guide to Working Smarter
- When Code Stops Being Fun: Recognizing and Recovering from Developer Burnout
- Beyond the Tutorial: How to Turn Learning Into Lasting Skills
- Career Planning Quiz
- Redefining Career Success: Beyond the Promotion and Paycheck
- A New Dawn: From Geocities to GitHub Pages - 24 Years of Digital Evolution
- Dear Past Me: What I Wish I Knew at 25 (And What I Hope to Remember at 65)
- The Right to Be Yourself: Setting Boundaries in a World That Wants to Change You
- Good Doctors Matter
- Developer in a Strange Land. Part 2
- Developer in a Strange Land. Part 1
2019
12 Articles- The Five Tenets: A Personal Operating System for Life and Work
- I'm still here
- Clearing NuGet Package Caches
- Good Copywriting Habits for SEO
- SEO for Beginners
- Git Tip of the Day -- What Changed?
- Ordinary Courage
- Git: Checkout a Branch at a Specific Date
- Clearing ASP.Net Temporary Files
- SEO Checklist
- What do you want more of in your life?
- Why I Write