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No, you're not at war.

Engineering Management

No, you're not at war.

Listen to the podcast version (AI-generated)0:00/365.41× I have a strong distaste for military or police metaphors in business. Heavy use of military verbiage from leadership sends the message that you're leading from a place of assumed authority rather than earned trust, a position that

How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

Engineering Management

How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

Priority bugs should take priority over planned sprints, and the sprint should be adjusted accordingly (i.e. backlog items removed and rescheduled) I recently updated our bug classification guide to include this statement about P1 bugs, which prompted the question: How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

When should I start planning items in the sprint for new team members?

Engineering Management

When should I start planning items in the sprint for new team members?

At what point should I start planning tasks in a sprint for the newcomers on my team? Do you multiply with some coefficient when estimating their capacity? My approach to this is that new team members can be included in planning as soon as they've completed onboarding and

Track Day Checklist

Track Day Checklist

Whether you're new to track or a track day veteran, rocking up without the right equipment can make a mess of your day.

Lems Shoes

I have super-wide feet (2E+), so finding shoes that actually fit is difficult – usually having to size up a whole, or even 1.5 sizes in "normal" shoes to accommodate the width of my hobbit feet. Most of the Lems range are designed around a wide toebox format

This mug cake is moist.

This mug cake is moist.

Super simple microwave chocolate mug cake.

This banana cake won't change your life, but it's really really good.

This banana cake won't change your life, but it's really really good.

Literally the best banana cake I've had.

Tunneling inter-host networking through a Docker Swarm Overlay network

Tunneling inter-host networking through a Docker Swarm Overlay network

Extending on Laurent Bernaille’s excellent 3-part deep dive series on Docker’s overlay networks I wanted to experiment with how we could utilise Docker’s overlay network to tunnel traffic between the nodes in a Swarm outside of the container environment, essentially treating the Overlay network as a mesh

MariaDB Galera in Docker: Persistent Storage and Automating the Bootstrapping Process

MariaDB Galera in Docker: Persistent Storage and Automating the Bootstrapping Process

⚠️Important Note I don’t recommend running this setup in a production environment — it’s an interesting prototype, but gives no control over the bootstrap process (it essentially relies on brute-forcing a race condition on container startup) which can lead to unreliable and unpredictable behaviour. Several months ago I was