One year and one day after receiving my settled status I officially became naturalised and am now a British citizen. I’m grateful for having been welcomed here (despite Brexit!) and making it “official” with the country I now call my home and for Portugal to allow dual citizenship. It is an accomplishment but it was...

Hey friend, Recently, I witnessed a transition from having a high personal ego to a team ego. The individual ego was causing low delivery speed, lack of team spirit, and many conflicts. When the team ego started to beat the personal one, the sun shone again, and the worst team became the best. Today I'm going to...

Hi! I made a new theme (or layout) for the blog! I used Minima as the base, then just edited the default layout and css files. Seems to work fine! If you spot any problems with it, feel free to comment about it. Here's the commit and merge if you want to see what I changed: Clicky!

gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2021/07/07.1 I felt the need to add some thoughts tangentially related to this post by Sean Conner. Why do we hold unit tests in such high regard? Enterprise software development (Agile with a TM at the end), and to an increasing degree open source software development has really...

As any self-respected developer, I redesigned my site many times. I thought it would be fun to document all these designs and see the evolution.

Astro is the latest new framework that seems pretty dang nice!