A blog about myself
Pull requests continue to be the primary mechanism by which we collaborate and contribute code. Despite this we often will put as little effort as possible into creating PRs. I’d like to convince you that even a small investment in improving them pays over-sized dividends to the project and your team members.
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self a few things that would help me be a better software developer, it would probably be: read the source, luke. read papers. create and maintain a dotfiles repo. The first two now seem obvious. Reading the code of the projects you use gives you insight that you can’t get from reading the documentation. Reading papers like Amazon Dynamo fits the same…
I’ve been wanting a blog for a while but never felt like I had the time for it. Lately, that’s changed, so I’ve put this site together. I’m a programmer by trade, and going forward my goal is to have this site be a mix of personal and technical writing. Watch this space :)