From HR to Sales, from lowly PM to top flight CTO, there’s “one thing” you need to develop to 1,000% rockstar your career! Etc. First of all apologies for the slightly clickbait title, but it does fit in extremely well with the general theme of the article — that of…

It is our duty as the troff bearing technicals to bring back great documentation. I’ve heard so many excuses for not producing documentation over my long years as a progressive engineer in the Grand Game of Software Engineering. And yet it is only now, during the twilight weeks of a…

Realisations really do strike home when the familiar actions cease. Armchair psychology is something that comes up a lot in the Grand Game of Software Engineering as the moves played on the game board of your engineering life are motivated by a surprisingly small number of guiding principles. We not…

Addressing rampant shoplifting through biotechnology, is this another technological dystopia in the making? I saw a fascinating story the other way about how Apple locks down its demonstration devices in its stores, not only allowing them to be tracked but also removing any potential functionality even if they were to…

We learn from those that came before us, and that alone is a truly worrying thought. I’m sure you’re probably familiar with the range of fictional stories dealing with how AI one day “wakes up”, becomes an AGI, and goes on to in some dystopian way to dominate humanity rather…

Yes of course I’d absolutely love to work with this <insert incredibly boring technology here>! I’ve come to realise many things about the Grand Game of Software Engineers through either direct personal experience, tales told by my fellow worker cogs, or through the noticing of someone doing something different and…

Throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks is the new paradigm in the age of co-pilots and chatbots. It’s always incredibly important to bear in mind that in the Grand Game of Software Engineering there’s never any such thing as a free lunch — both literally and metaphorically. …

Quantum physics in the daily standup, chat channel, and performance review. Mathematics is the fundamental framework that underpins everything around us in our daily lives whether we’re walking on a windswept shore, shopping in the local supermarket, or being required to perform like dancing hamsters in the daily scrum of…

Order isn’t necessarily the best thing in software engineering. A long, long time ago I was introduced to the Chronicles of Amber, a series of novels by Roger Zelazny¹ and though the lore and stories based on that world are way more than can be even superfluously dipped into with…