The story of four digging devices Reading time ~7 minutes

There once was a digger device architect. This is the story about the first four digging device engagements he worked in. Engagement #1 - Early success A customer consulted with the architect and asked: Could you build me a digging device, please? The architect responded with the question: Alright, what......

Is it possible to make user stories too small? Reading time ~4 minutes

Background For those of you who are uninitiated into the terminology of agile software development, a ‘story’ refers to a chunk of work. The general principle for sizing these stories is to size them with the customer/end user in mind using the following question: What is the smallest unit of......

Automatic Open Graph Images with Jekyll and Cloudinary Reading time ~10 minutes

Inspired by an excellent blog post by Delba de Oliveira on how to set up automated og:images in next.js using Cloudinary. What is an Open Graph image (og:image)? An Open Graph image is a preview image that social networks use whenever a link to an external website is shared. They......

Too beginner to share Reading time ~1 minute

The other day, I saw a LinkedIn blog post and thought, Well… that’s pretty basic. Who wouldn’t know that already? and continued with my day. Thankfully, the post came back up in my feed several times. It generated many comments, and people were saying Wow! I’ve never thought of that.......

Easy responsive images on Github Pages with Cloudinary Reading time ~4 minutes

⚠️ Brief Note For Perfection Seekers ⚠️ This is definitely not the best™ way to handle images. In an ideal world you would want the URLs generated off of the width and height of the images. You cannot do that in a plain-jane include though. You must reach for a......