Developers are Solving The Wrong Problem
Everyone is either offended or excited about “vibe coding.” It’s all the rage and going to solve all your problems,…
Tag: developer productivity
Selling to Developers: Developers Have Exactly Two Goals in Life
I’ve done the rounds through a number of SaaS companies – Twilio, Okta, ngrok, and now Pangea – where we…
Software Development Failures?
In my regular wanderings of the web, I came across an interesting article titled “Why Software Developers Refuse to Improve“. …
Mutually Assured Distraction
In the past few years, I've read a number of books, articles, etc on productivity. Everything from Project Management tomes…
Don't Break the Chain
Ah, one of the joys of the new year is that everyone makes commitments that they're going to keep this…
Working from Home aka Step 1 to Having No Life
When people are just getting started working from home, they go one of two ways: a) They are wildly productive…
Life for Geeks: Taking a Break
In case you haven't noticed, things have been pretty quiet around here for the last week. No, CaseySoftware didn't go…
Bug-killing Via Logs
I am a log watcher. I regularly “tail -f” numerous files such as catalina.out (Tomcat), log4j.log, and apache's error and…
Taking a Day Off
Well, Game Producer stole a bit of my thunder, but I'm still going to share. Have you ever considered taking…
Setting your own Working Hours
When I was considering starting my own company, I had a friend who kept singing the glories of working on…