Conventional Commits Git Hook
I was looking for a way to enforce the Conventional Commits pattern for my own commit messages. A lot of the solutions I found were wildly …
2023
How I Do 1-2-1 Meetings
It appears that everyone on the internet completely hates 1-2-1 meetings.
I don’t particularly want to add fuel to that viewpoint; I’m …
Link Roundup #6
Some of these are older links I found languishing, misfiled in my Safari favourites.
The collapse of complex software
Right now, the software …
Link Roundup #5
Back after a vacation with the ChatGPT special edition. I suspect the theme of the next 5 years will be ChatGPT.
Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web …
Link Roundup #4
We are being levelled-down
The government has allocated £9.7 billion of levelling up funding since 2019. But between 2010 and 2020, annual funding …
Hiring Correctly
It’s a time of year when a lot of businesses are hiring, and layoffs mean there are more candidates in the marketplace. That also means the …
Link Roundup #3
Amazon is discontinuing its AmazonSmile charity program next month
“Amazon emailed participants of the free program about the news on …
Link Roundup #2
Microservices are a Big Ball of Mud
It’s incredible that we still have microservice defenders in 2023. It’s a prime example of the …
Link Roundup #1
A few years ago I used to write these short articles with links to interesting things I found on the internet. I stopped doing that because I …