As an: engineer at a large tech company how might the engineering work I propose get implemented?
Individual Contributor (IC) Engineers are the experts of the systems they develop and operate. They often propose what I’m calling IC Initiatives: units of work that take typically one to four …
I shall die one day I suppose
In this old Turkish house I inhabit:
A ragged banana-leaf outside and here
On the sill in a jam-jar a rock-rose.
Perhaps a single pining mandolin
Throbs where cicadas have quarried
To the heart of all misgivings and there
Scratches on silence like a pet locked in.
Will …
Design from zero to achieve simplicity; don’t endeavour to reduce the complex.
I use this heuristic in software engineering for both code and project level tasks. I apply it to all tasks; whether they should take a couple of hours or several months to complete.
Systems have realities: design, …
I made a tool to visualise the file structure of git repositories: Longitude. The inspiration comes from work where I wanted to overlay team ownership across files and directories in some of the large monolithic code bases.
It’s very much an MVP and is a nights-and-weekends project. …
