Stop Separating People Problems from Engineering Problems
In response to my recent post on moving away from engineering management to individual contributor roles , someone asked me whether I'll miss solving people ... Read More
Blog
Andrew Graham-Yooll
Latest posts
Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got
My CTO leaned back in our 1-on-1 and said something that sounded almost threatening: "You want to get promoted? Try to take my position." I ... Read More
Did I Just Ask For A Demotion?
I just asked my boss to demote me. Not because I failed. Not because I was fired. Because after three years as an Engineering Manager, ... Read More
Updating UV Build Backend
On my hobby project bakesite , I recently updated the build backend to use new default uv_build instead of the previous default hatchling. This is ... Read More
A Shortlist of Tapas Restaurants in Valencia
When my family visits us in Valencia, these are the tapas spots we love most. Each one offering its own charm and great food. I ... Read More
Management Is Not Leadership
It is a common pattern: The technical lead/most senior engineer on the team takes on people management as an afterthought, only later to find out ... Read More
Running Django's Javascript Tests
Django has lots of tests, and wide range of types: unit tests with Unittest UI/Selenium tests Screenshots Javascript QUnit tests I recently dug into an ... Read More
Don't Be That Person: A Maintainer's Perspective on Code Change Reviews
What most people underestimate about open source is that creating a PR is only the first hurdle to jump through. For better or worse, contributing ... Read More
My WTF's of Twin Peaks Season 1
Twin Peaks, its been on my watch list for a while now. But since listening to the recent episodes on the Black Dahlia murders from ... Read More
Groupthink In Engineering Teams
What is Groupthink? As defined by Wikipedia , groupthink is: a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for ... Read More
My Simple Obsidian to Github Pages Writing Workflow
Writing is hard. But so is publishing your writing. And much like software, publishing is the analog of "going to production" ie. only when your ... Read More
Copy/Pasta Driven Development®
As seen in numerous pull requests, the conversation goes something like this: Me: “Interesting solution. Where did this come from?” Colleague: “I found it on ... Read More
Good Job Jekyll
Good job Jekyll and the team around Jekyll Admin ! After lots of time away from writing publically, I have come back to it. Not ... Read More
Flask and Javascript Testing
There comes a time in a Flask applications lifecycle where javascript testing may become necessary. You might have lots of jQuery laying around. Or get ... Read More
Pgloader on Mac
Getting Started The other day, we at Solaris Offgrid needed to port our database over to PostgreSQL. It was time. For that task we used ... Read More
Cordova Geolocation Plugin with Ionic 2 and ngRx
The other day I was installing the Cordova Geolocation plugin on an Ionic2 implementing Redux app I have. The issue I was having, was storing ... Read More
Chic-a-Chic-a-CheckBox
Im going to try to keep my future posts short and simple. KISS Ahhh…. the beautiful checkbox in your form. You just love clicking it ... Read More
VirtualBox on Kali-Linux
Want to run a virtual machine within Kali Linux? You can use VirtualBox easily on your setup. Here is how to do it Execute {% ... Read More
Learning programming the harder way
Summary The answers to your bug or issue most likely is NOT in a textbook, blogpost, or article Pick a goal, a large goal, and ... Read More
Icons For Days
Let me start off by saying that the folks over at Ionic are doing a great job. They are responsive to user issues, requests, and ... Read More
README
readme One of the greatest lessons I have learned in development is to always read the README. Instead of asking a question on StackOverflow or ... Read More