I've been in and out of management roles in the California tech startup scene for the last decade. It's typical, especially in startups, that management training doesn't extend much, if at all, beyond sexual harassment prevention training. This brought me to a realization recently:

For the last 18 months I've been working in an environment that uses Github Actions as its CI platform. I don't have good things to day about it. Outages aside, of which there have been quite a few, Github is developing Actions the way many companies

I wrote this a few years ago to share with friends and colleagues. It got a lot of positive feedback. I figure I might as well post it here. Why do we review? There are many reasons to request and offer code review. It helps coalesce our many variations into

For over a decade now I've called California home, but for the last month I've been in the old country, back in Bristol where I grew up. I've never particularly loved driving, it's just a way to get from A to B.

Much has been made of all the post 9/11 security theatre at airports. Some of it is legitimate criticism, some I feel is just taking easy shots at people trying to do a difficult and unrewarding job. That being said, I feel like every time I see an article

If you're outside the USA and don't know what "Section 230" is, in short, it's the bit of legislation that means social networks (and other online publishers/platforms) aren't accountable for the content their users post. It has some limitations

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