Have we become subjugated by both our tools and the seemingly endless layers of management? If you haven’t come across the Transvaluation of Values then perhaps it’s time, as a progressive software engineer wishing to progress to the higher and more valuable ranks in the Grand Game, that you cast…

From the horse’s mouth — why it’s so much better to work remotely. For the purposes of this narrative I’ll just say up front that, despite what HR says, hybrid work is also remote work. Now, to the plot. Humans Can Be Islands Although HR generally touts social isolation as being detrimental to an…

The software engineering market is nowhere near as bad as the new sites would have you believe. The bigger tech companies are all over the news, once again, but this time with their firings, hiring freezes, and their predictably urgent “need to insure profitability” (though their balance sheets, of course…

Or rather, “How someone can easily judge you in just 2 lines of text.” If you cast your eyes over a random person’s Twitter profile¹ you can get an instant insight into how that person wishes to define themselves to the outside word, or conversely see that they just doesn’t…

Addressing morale is the fundamental thing your management should be doing. You can talk¹ about bad management, idiot development methodologies, suffocating over-engineered processes, and box ticking busywork (and I frequently do in many of my articles) but the fundamental thing in the Grand Game of Software Engineering is to keep…

A future intelligence practicing security through quantum obscurity? Over the past several years there’s been a great deal of thought, discussion, and sometimes even heated debate around the possibility of us¹ existing in a simulation. I’ve touched on a few different possibilities myself in previous articles — it’s an interesting…

Companies deny it, evade it, and would do anything but raise it. We’ve all heard about the foosball tables, the ball pits full of very suspiciously coloured balls, the mountains of free protein snacks, even the ‘artisan’ avocado toast and supposedly ‘in your seat’ massages, oh, and the free dry…

It’s a one way street, and the corporate cars are always going the other way from you, trying to run you down. Loyalty to a company used to be a thing in the old days. A bit like in “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning¹” for example, when loyalty to the…

Why do companies make this so difficult, and how it can be fixed. It’s nothing new, most especially in modern times, to imagine that companies really do hate their customers — even though it’s those very customers that they squarely depend on to stay in business. That companies should behave…