Originally published on dev.to Navigating “senior+” job interviews I recently did a round of job interviews. I’m on the top end of the Senior Software Engineer band, and I was looking for other “top of senior” or Staff Software Engineer roles. At the end of the interview process I had two continue reading…
Introduction First of all, I’m aware it’s April 1st, I was thinking of some joke post but then I remembered that I have an actual serious post I’d like to write, so this is not any kind of joke. The challenge & repo A while back, Github posted a capture continue reading…
I have a confession to make: I never remember how to use argparse. Maybe it’s because I don’t use it often enough to have how it works memorized, but I certainly use it often enough that I’m annoyed every time I have to look it up. Argparse? More like ARGHparse. continue reading…
Django makes it easy to quickly spin up APIs and provides a great admin interface and command line management tools. It certainly speeds up the development of any CRUD system. However, as your project grows, you will want to make sure your code is well-documented, both for your backend developers continue reading…
#9 will shock you. The web has been changing the past few years, not necessarily always for the better. There has been an emergence of anti-patterns, which are patterns that stand to try to make a profit without caring about the user experience, or often by hindering it. These patterns continue reading…
You may have noticed the site looks different. Due to “technical difficulties” I’ve had to move the wordpress install to a new box, quite hastily. Please let me know if anything is broken; I’m still picking up the pieces.
That’s right, as promised, I’m going to torture myself with Jenkins some more, this time with multi-branch pipelines! If you missed it, I recently wrote a blog post in which I explained how to integrate Jenkins and Github with freestyle jobs. In that post, I stipulated that were I able continue reading…
Introduction Note There’s a better way of doing this with multibranch pipelines, which I recommend over this method. You may need to build jenkins jobs when branches/PRs are made from within the repository – say, to run tests. You may also want to report on the test status when finished. continue reading…
I heard about a team being asked to provide burndown charts in their demos to stakeholders. My first reaction was: why!? In this blog post, I’m going to try to articulate why I believe burndown charts are often meaningless at best and harmful at worst, and why even if they continue reading…
I have been working on a new python-based API recently, and on a colleague’s suggestion we decided to use fastapi as our framework. Fastapi is a python-based framework which encourages documentation using Pydantic and OpenAPI (formerly Swagger), fast development and deployment with Docker, and easy tests thanks to the Starlette continue reading…