Field notes,
in progress.
An irregular journal of software, leadership, and the occasional rant. Some pieces are practical. Some are me thinking out loud and hoping it’s useful to someone else.
Dear Past Me: What I Wish I Knew at 25 (And What I Hope to Remember at 65)
If I could sit down with my 25-year-old self over coffee, I'd probably start with "relax, you're going to be okay." Then I'd spend the next three hours frantically trying to download two decades of hard-earned wisdom before the timeline paradox kicked in.
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The Right to Be Yourself: Setting Boundaries in a World That Wants to Change You
Three years into my first corporate job, I found myself in a bathroom stall at 2 PM, fighting back tears after yet another meeting where my ideas were dismissed without consideration. I'd spent months trying to adapt to the company culture, modifying my communication style, tempering my enthusiasm, and generally trying to become someone I thought they wanted me to be.
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Good Doctors Matter
They told me that my son was a gift to science. They told me that I should abort. They told me to donate his remains to the hospital for research so that some good could come from his condition.
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Developer in a Strange Land. Part 2
Find your routine
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Developer in a Strange Land. Part 1
Surviving Remote Work
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The Five Tenets: A Personal Operating System for Life and Work
Every few years, life forces you to confront a fundamental question: what principles actually guide your decisions when everything else falls away?
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I'm still here
Where have I been lately
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Clearing NuGet Package Caches
How to Clear Your NuGet Caches
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Good Copywriting Habits for SEO
Publishing a page is easy, but ensuring that you have quality content is not. How do you make sure that you balance your content so that it is easily consumable by your readers, as well as making your content easy to find by search engines? This guide will provide a few basic elements that you can review to make sure your articles have the highest possible impact and reach.
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SEO for Beginners
SEO is a common term for website administration and Digital Marketing which stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is the practice of organizing your site content, meta-data, and link relationships in order to reach higher ranked positions in a search result list. SEO is a basic strategy in any marketing plan and should be part of your standard practices.
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Git Tip of the Day -- What Changed?
You walk into Monday morning, grab your coffee, and stare at your repository. Three weeks of vacation bliss, but now you need to figure out what chaos your team unleashed while you were gone. Sound familiar?
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Ordinary Courage
You don't have to be a superhero
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Git: Checkout a Branch at a Specific Date
How to Checkout a Branch at a Specific Date
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Clearing ASP.Net Temporary Files
How to Clear Your ASP.NET Cache
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SEO Checklist
A simple guide to modern Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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What do you want more of in your life?
This series will focus on answering direct questions. I do not promise to answer every question received, but I do promise that every answer will be honest, sometimes brutally so. When applicable, I will provide links to resources, but most of the responses will be derived directly from past experiences, and stories.
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