What Is a Senior Engineer, Anyway?

2024-11-17

I’ve been having a bunch of conversations with my team about our career ladder, and what it means to be “senior” in a software engineering context. It’s a little different in every company, but here is my view.

On That Okta LDAP Bug

2024-11-03

A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance of sensible defaults.

Death, and Utsuge

2024-11-01

This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.

Sensibly Default

2024-10-19

There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.