We don’t pick the ballroom, we just dance.

Some notes on securing a GitHub Actions deploy workflow and the parts of doing so that can be surprising.

I’ve been working with a nutrition and performance coach (the amazing Morgan Voz) since last summer, and at the start of 2023 we embarked on a weight cut - a deliberate effort to get leaner by lowering my body fat percentage. When we started on January 1st of this year I weighed in at 207 pounds, and when we stopped I …

Some notes on changes I made in 2022 that materially improved my life as we go into 2023.

One of the hard parts about management is that many folks end up there by accident. Very often, folks are told “you’re a high performing individual contributor, so you will clearly have an easy time becoming a manager of other individual contributors.” While it’s true that many of the best managers are fantastic …

If you’re working remote nowadays, there’s a good chance you’re using Slack. In this article, I’ll try to express some ideas I’ve got around how to minimize the attention-grabbing and focus-interrupting effects that Slack tends to have, and hopefully show you how to make the best of it as a tool.

With the advent of PSR-4, PHP now has a standard for autoloading in applications, creating a convention for managing the imports and namespaces in your PHP applications. Here’s a short guide on how to bootstrap a PHP app to use PSR-4 autoloading via Composer, with examples.