I woke up that morning carrying a conversation I couldn't quite shake. A minor disagreement, in the grand scheme of things. But one that exposed a growing wound I had, up to that point, refused to acknowledge. I was spread too thin and spending too much time working on things nobody would ever see. Ideas that never seemed to find the space to become what I thought they could be. Nobody else saw…
I don't talk about my personal life a lot. It's not because any of that is secret. I don't keep secrets. Secrets must be maintained, and I am a maintainer of software. The contract here is really quite simple -> lies and secrets are too hard to keep up. In truth, the answer is much more mundane - I don't talk about it, because for the most part, I don't have one. I've always been . . . alone. So…
As a software engineer, the most important thing in the universe is your ability to actually get people to experience your work. Period. If you don't have an effective and trustworthy build pipeline in this day and age, you do not have an application - you have a big source tree nobody can do shit with. Having a deliverable is the difference between someone happily downloading your game and making…