What burnout taught me (more than once)
Burned out more than once across twenty years, and the point is that none of them looked the same as the one before it.
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The take-home goes in the bin
Hiring engineers for judgement rather than output, and why every part of a normal interview is measuring the wrong thing.
The campsite was never the point
Ten years on from taking the name: the Boy Scout Rule scales from a function to a team, because it is about intention rather than size.
Why I still write code
The case for a head of engineering staying hands-on, written as a confession rather than a boast, because the compulsion is the problem.
Technical CV writing is still hard, and now a robot reads it first
My CV stopped landing because a machine reads it before a person does. Reworking the structure for the filter without losing the voice.
Moving this blog off Jekyll
Moving this blog from Jekyll and GitHub Pages to Hugo and GitLab Pages, and the two things I would do differently next time.
Technical CV writing is hard
Pulling my own technical CV apart section by section: font, length, format, personal details, and the self-graded skills table.
A reboot and a legacy moniker
Restarting the blog after a two-year gap, and what to do about a name that stopped being literally accurate a long time ago.
Goodbye Dev in Charge
Rebranding from Dev in Charge to PHP Boy Scout, and the conference talk that connected a decade of Scouting to how I write code.
Its time for a change
Winding down my own company after three and a half years of becoming more salesman than engineer, and what I decided to do instead.