As our time in a hybrid work environment has gone on, I’ve had to be much more intentional about staying connected with my team. I was always a “walking around” kind of leader whenever I could make the time. There’s no better way to get a sense of how the team is feeling than to walk the floor and have casual conversations. You discover lots of really interesting things that way, and many people are more apt to share concerns or observations in a situation that isn’t prescribed or otherwise...

As I mentioned in my First Post, when I originally set this blog up I wrote a small shell script to rsync the static build of the blog to my web host. This works great, but it does mean multiple steps to get the blog published and persisted in source control. Enter Github Actions. GitHub Actions are in the vein of capabilities provided by Drone, Jenkins, Travis, Azure Devops, and other CI/CD toolsets. I’m pretty familiar with Drone, having done a lot of Drone-based automation in conjunction with...

After several false starts and and lots of procrastination, this blog may actually stick around for a while. I’ve dabbled with blogging off and on, but recently I’ve decided that I really need to start writing some things down and make an attempt to share. So here we are. First up, a few words on my choices of platform are in order. As I thought through how I’d go about doing this a handful of principles rose to the top: I want to have complete control over my content and how it’s presented I do...