What I learned about myself by collecting a huge pile of plastic.

An example layout for large CDK projects.

How growing software development teams are hurt by territorial tendencies of bad middle management.

Improving the ergonomics of my devices for better experience and less pain.

How to set access policy on a Key Vault provisioned via an ARM template.

Use a PostgreSQL database to store ASP.NET Identity data.

Get started with Azure Service Bus client library for .NET.

How bias in machine learning impacts our lives and what can we do about it.

How to use Azure Service Bus bindings and triggers for Azure Functions to simplify your glue code.

I moved my blog from wordpress.com to Netlify and started using Hugo to generate site content from my Markdown files. I love the workflow, and I now don’t pay for stuff I don’t use.

Another way to push secrets from Azure DevOps to a Key Vault using an ARM template’s output.

Bertrand Russell has been an inspiring influence on me since my university years. This post is inspired by his thoughts on why Philosophy is useful.

Steps to use Azure Key Vault from an Azure DevOps Release pipeline.

Scrum demonstrates a scientific orientation towards project management. It’s foundations in empiricism make it a scientific enterprise.

During the life of a Scrum project, the scrum team develops a shared understanding of how much effort a story point actually represents. This shared sense of worth of a story point makes estimates more accurate over time.

Story points are a useful measure of effort required for a task, even though they are not accurate. During the life of a project, the overestimates will cancel out the underestimates over many sprints. The Bell Curve provides a mathematics-based intuition for that assertion.