2024 Goals

It's that time again, where I set a list of rather ambitious goals for the year ahead. I realised that I didn't actually publish my 2023 goals, so I'll start by closing that thread off by saying overall it was a successful year. My

Anatomy of a good CV

I've been screening a huge number of CVs recently, and through this process my thoughts on 'what makes a good CV' have cemented enough that I wanted to write them down. Before we begin, it's important to to understand who and how the content

New perspective on Burnout

Not something that was on my immediate mind at the time of writing, but I was listening to a podcast which had a segment discussing burnout. During the chat, they give the word a clear definition, but also discuss what causes it in a way that really resonated when I

Relaunching the Blog

I've decided that after some neglect that id put some energy into the blog, and hence here it is. I've updated it to the latest major version of Ghost, 5 at the time of writing, although sadly that has bought with it a migration from SQLite

Prioritising Technical Debt

As per the title, any engineering team has no doubt had the conversations about to get technical debt prioritised, especially when the backlog or roadmap is bursting with features and tasks that sales just can't live without. One thing that's resonated with me recently is a