Some tips to help keep miniature golfing with children as civilized as possible.

In this second part of the series, I’ll describe the rhetorical situation using a framework used in college composition classrooms.

To succeed in software engineering, mastering code as a language is crucial, and "speaking code" is as important as writing and reading it.

Being honest when you don’t yet know how to do something is a powerful display of confidence and integrity.

“Simplifying” our language use can make our meanings less precise, and rob our audiences of the opportunity to deepen their own literacy.

AI Skill Threat is real. Software practitioners are afraid, anxious, and worried about the relevancy of their current skill sets.

Absent an invitation, even the most theoretically sound workshop, course, academy - what have you - will fail to garner learner engagement.

Our failure to communicate effectively in the engineering domain can have consequences inimical to our ultimate goal of shipping software.

When we think about coding – especially early in our journeys as code learners – we typically think about writing code.

Software development teams traditionally use the retrospective ceremony to reflect on their results, performance and processes. But the...

In December of 2019, I was horribly burnt out. Over the prior four years, I’d been working maniacally to exit a career in education.

It's been seven years since I set up a personal machine for software development, and my first time setting up for Python development.

The overarching objective was to arm folks across the company with the knowledge to diagnose the accessibility of our products.

I’ve never been able to sustain the motivation to actually complete a MOOC. Until now!

Following is an asynchronous conversation as Hannah onboarded to her new role as a Solutions Architect at Pluralsight.

My uncertainty around how to be was fundamentally grounded in questions about authenticity.

Most have likely heard – and probably even uttered at one point or another – the phrase “big word”.

Learning how to code requires time, doggedness, deep concentration, ceaseless solicitations for help, and the ability to endure...

I’m writing this letter of gratitude in order to thank you for what ended up being an immensely satisfying round of Bandon Dunes golf.

What I’ve found since transitioning back into an engineering role is that because of that year in leadership, I’m a more confidant IC.

It’s no secret that women are still a minority in the tech industry, and the causes are multifactorial and complex.

I want to encourage everyone who produces writing in any mode, genre and format to embrace the communal nature of it.