As an Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager here is my list of thing I like to focus on, whether that is joining a business, or consulting exiitng businesses on how best to develop Engineering Talent and improve Engineering Procedures. The list is not complete, nor does it contain all the detail you would probably need to implement all of these points. But it does provide a good starting point. ...
Overview and History I used to run a lot. Not ever long distance, but as a Teenager I did athletics at school. I was OK at it. Generally doing Hurdles, 400m and Long Jump events (what a combo). However I gave it up when i was about 20 or 21 due to life choices that I now regret. I always thought I was a good or natural athlete, I was pretty fit, liked running and generally was competitive, but never really had the dedication to do anything serious at all. That was obviously a bit of a mistake ...
The Idea Since running a team and having to use off the shelf Retrospective products I’ve dreamt of building my own. Not only because I thought it would be interesting to do, but because everything on the market, at least in my mind, wasn’t great. What I wanted was something simple, easy setup, easy sharing with just a link and a simple User Interface with none of the bells and whistles other solutions have. Just a board, adjustable columns and cards and nothing else. ...
Overview Recently I’ve started onboarding Junior Full Stack devs using a beginner Project. Here is why I made that change, as well as what the project consists of and its outcomes What we did before, and why change? Before I explore why I’m now using this as an onboarding method I’ll explain what we were doing before. Throwing them into the beep end. That’s not something I’d recommend but traditionally we would spend a day going over the company, the next day going over some of the technology we are currently implementing. Getting them access to all the repos and tools and then saying “go and explore”. ...
Overview NX is a great tool to manage Mono-repos. I’ve been using it for near on 5 years in my professional life and around about the same on a number of side projects. One of the first things I set up in any new mono-repo is the proxying of API requests through the front-end to the API running in parallel. With NX this is super easy and makes life simple as you only have to run one command and get both stacks running all at the same time. ...
Thanks to Obsidian being simple Markdown files on the file system, organising through folders (and the through tags and front-matter) is super easy to implement and change later (this is key as you will always want to reorganise when you find a better way) In this post I want to go over a quick overview of each of my folders in my personal vault with a bit of an explanation as to what they do and what is included in there ...
I use Obsidian as my note taking / organisational tool. I’ve been using it for a while now and have found it to be very useful. I’ve created a template that I use for all of my daily notes. It’s not perfect but it works well enough for me. Sections Front Matter The “Frontmatter” in my daily notes is super simple, All I need if for is to keep track of my daily mood and productivity level. ...