As a father: what I wish everyone knew about Autism Reading time ~2 minutes

April is autism awareness month. I wanted to share one thing I think, as a father, would be useful for people to know. That is this: Every autistic person is different Let’s dive a little deeper into that. Each autistic person is their own person In the same way that......

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.......