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Enterprise Software is Messy and Difficult... That’s Why It Requires Transparency and Collaboration

One of our clients recently really bungled a product rollout. They rushed to production without a soft launch period, made themselves the public face of the product, launched with a lot of fanfare, and when major day-1 gaps emerged, they absorbed the brunt of the criticism. It wasn't a good

No One Ever Tests Counterintuitive Things

The problem that bedevils organizations once they reach a certain size is that narrow, conventional logic is the natural mode of thinking for thew risk-averse bureaucrat or executive. There is a simple reason for this: you can never be fired for being logical.

Books I Read in 2020

In 2020 I read 15 nonfiction books, 5 novels, and 13 graphic novels or art books. In 2019, I read 26 books all together. In 2018, I read 38. Why split it out this way? It seemed a logical way of organizing things. I included only books I read cover

How I Built A Simple Image-Gallery Static Site Generator

I recently built a static site generator that scratched quite a few itches for me, not least of all being 'learning python'. The project was relatively straightforward: you can put your photos into a folder structure, run the code, and out pops a simple, static HTML/CSS site.

Always Have a Real Use Case

On the uses and misuses of "MVPs" I recently built a project I was pretty proud of. It was a simple website generator that put together image galleries. For example, if you have a bunch of photos laying around in folders on your computer and you'd like to share them

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