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It's been more than five years since my last musical goals post, where I set some process-oriented goals, in addition to my longer-term outcome-oriented ones.

It is well known that YAML has a Norway problem, where the country code NO is interpreted as boolean false.

The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts, a subcategory of legacy code that is highly resistant to change despite being well-designed and performing a critical function.

I share how I tackled the challenge of reducing cycle time for getting pull requests approved within my team, using the first habit from "7 Habits of Highly Effective People": Be Proactive.

I've played guitar for 25 years, but I'm unable to play fast.

Introducing a Guide to Personal Retrospectives---a post on our company blog I co-wrote with my colleague Cian.

I review the book by Julia Galef---about the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were.

From now on there will be only abstracts in the RSS feed.

In 2013 I worked at NET-A-PORTER, where we ran a year-long graduate program.

In my musical journey I try to record myself occasionally to track my progress, and be able to critically listen to myself so I can fix my mistakes.

Every time I start learning to ride I get disillusioned and give up due to two things; the cost, and the terminology.