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Principal Stories: What is a Principal Software Engineer?

It has been a year or so since I’ve written about Qualifying Seniority, where I shared my view of what makes a Software Engineer a Senior…

Nov 4, 2022

Principal Stories: What is a Principal Software Engineer?

Nov 4, 2022

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Modern SWE: Part 2.2 — Planning to Specialise

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. — Walter Gropius

Dec 11, 2024

Modern SWE: Part 2.2 — Planning to Specialise

Dec 11, 2024

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Trying something new

Towards the end of 2024, I’ve started thinking about how I can scale my impact to the world outside of my day job.

Dec 10, 2024

A cliff diver free-falling backwards into the ocean.

Dec 10, 2024

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Why it’s so hard to write good libraries

It’s easy to know what good looks like, but it’s harder to make something good.

Nov 19, 2024

Why it’s so hard to write good libraries

Nov 19, 2024

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Breaking a problem down

New article dropped, more coming along soon!

Nov 6, 2024

Nov 6, 2024

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Modern SWE: Career Crafting — Part 2.1: Specialise or Generalise

Would you rather be a Jack of All Trades, Master of None or a Master of One? How about a Jack of All Trades, Master of One?

Nov 6, 2024

A master woodworker poring over their work carefully.

Nov 6, 2024

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Ongoing Drafts

Just a quick update on articles under development and my current reading list.

Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

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Iteration Planning

It’s time to commit to making more content. Nothing better than public accountability to making it happen!

Oct 19, 2024

Oct 19, 2024

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Modern Software Engineering: Career Crafting – Part 1: Early Career

How do you get to a place you haven’t seen yet and you don’t know where to start?

Apr 22, 2024

Modern Software Engineering: Career Crafting – Part 1: Early Career

Apr 22, 2024

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Modern Software Engineering: Career Crafting – Part 0: Series Introduction

This is the start of a new series on crafting modern software engineering careers.

Dec 10, 2023

Modern Software Engineering: Career Crafting – Part 0: Series Introduction

Dec 10, 2023

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An Ode to Software Engineers

A love letter to my fellow problem solvers and tinkerers.

Aug 30, 2023

An Ode to Software Engineers

Aug 30, 2023

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Modern Software Engineering — Part 5: Continuous Evolution

“If you don’t evolve, you will die. “- Marcus Lemonis

Aug 8, 2023

The bones of a long dead animal fossilized in limestone.

Aug 8, 2023

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Modern Software Engineering — Part 4: Deployment

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. —…

Jul 17, 2023

Modern Software Engineering — Part 4: Deployment

Jul 17, 2023

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Modern Software Engineering – Part 3: Documentation

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal

Jul 2, 2023

Modern Software Engineering – Part 3: Documentation

Jul 2, 2023

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Modern Software Engineering – Part 2: Testing

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the act of putting them in.” – Edsger Djikstra

Jun 25, 2023

Modern Software Engineering – Part 2: Testing

Jun 25, 2023

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Modern Software Engineering — Part 1: System Design

“Make it simple, but significant.” – Don Draper, Mad Men

Jun 19, 2023

Modern Software Engineering — Part 1: System Design

Jun 19, 2023

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A Story About a Software Architect

I had a chance to be an interim Software Architect recently, and here’s a story about what I’ve learned in the process.

May 29, 2023

A picture of rounded buildings with an imaginative design.

May 29, 2023

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Career Planning as an Individual Contributor Software Engineer

Begin with the end in mind.

Jul 4, 2023

Career Planning as an Individual Contributor Software Engineer

Jul 4, 2023

Learning to learn; My Learning Process

Learning is a hard endeavour. It helps to have a process that works for you.

Dec 8, 2022

A person writing.

Dec 8, 2022

My Problem Solving Process

Problem solving is the key aspect of software engineering that I love the most. It doesn’t matter what problem I’m solving — whether it’s…

Nov 17, 2022

My Problem Solving Process

Nov 17, 2022

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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft by profession, writer by passion; thoughts are my own.

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