john_the_writer

I've been reading a lot of LIT-RPG lately and it got me thinking about building a IRL version. I've read that a simple 12 hour youtube course and a decent book, can vastly improve your knowledge on a topic.. This feels…

I was just contemplating my companies driving urge to make bad tech decisions wherever and whenever they possibly can. If there's a tech choice to be made they will make it. And I will have to build it. Spend 2 years…

I've recently been tasked to answer a pile of long form CultureAmp questions, and when chatting I realised most of the dev team hates the thing. Even my boss rather loathes it. Am I alone in my distaste of the whole…

I've been programming for a bit north of 20 years. I started on c++, did a bit of assembly, and a bit of Java. I stumbled into rails about 10 years ago, and did some React and some Elixir. So the real question. What do…

I've been a dev for around 20 years. I love the idea of security work, both for the challenge , and the ability to learn about how to protect myself more.. I've been looking at the industry for a while now, and the only…