Bytes and Bikes

If you like learning via books like me, you might be interested in reviewing manuscripts prior to publishing.

My team at Seeq is hiring for a couple of roles!

As I mentioned in Are Migrations Good for Your Career?

If you’re in software and early in your career, the book Clean Code is often recommended as a must-read.

I think Grokking Simplicity is a must read for anyone who works with code.

When is the last time you thought about how you make decisions or evaluated your decision success rate?

I have given significant thought to how to make good decisions lately.

I am a big fan of Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE), and I have been doing it for a while (this post is POSSEed, for example).

I was listening to the My First Million podcast, and Shaan Puri shared a decision-making framework he uses to help him make better decisions (and record decisions for later analysis).

Large pull requests make me sleepy.

If you’re a software engineer, which would you rather work on - a greenfield project or a software system migration?

What is the hardest problem in computer science?

I wrote an article about how to influence software architecture (and decision-making more generally).

A colleague asked me, “How do you get a shared technical style across teams and also between teams?”

I’m a Senior Principal Software Engineer and aspiring entrepreneur currently located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

I finished reading Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman.

I’ve been learning next.js via the official tutorial.

This article is a friendly reminder that if you actually want to be good and continuously improve, it pays to spend time to truly understand what you’re working on: https://www.stevenoxley.com/blog/2025/09/09/trial-and-error-driven-development/

One of the things that I learned (fortunately) relatively early on in my career is that it’s actually important to understand how things work.

A few weeks ago I finally captured a POV of a run down the Return to Sender trail on Canfield mountain.

I finished reading Release It!

I recently ran a book club at Seeq for the book Release It!

I included some reader comments in my latest article about how to apply the principle of production purpose.

In The Principle of Production Purpose (PPP), I described a principle that encourages applying common sense to software.

I finished listening to the book Buy Then Build this morning.

How do you resolve distractions so that you can focus on what I like to call your main quest?

I have a mailing list you can join!

v0.0.1 In the last article, I wrote about how I was selected to lead a new team at my company, Seeq, that would be responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, software delivery, production observability, and operations tooling.

I wrote a blog post about a (fairly obvious, but easy to overlook at times) principle I discovered as part of my work the past few years at Seeq.

“We want you to be the manager,” my VP of engineering told me.

I have fully collected and analyzed the results of my polls about how long people are waiting for code review.

Does expired bear spray put the bear at risk of food poisoning?

I recently purchased some foam dart blasters for my self kids.

New discussion questions for Release It!

Is this the future?

I learned a cool tip about how to add details to foliage in this blog post from the art director of Bluey: Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director - Chapter 1.

My 5 year old daughter likes drawing, and I think it would be fun to get back into it again, so I’m trying to do a little drawing every day.

I was recently on a walk with my 2 year old daughter.

I decided to try out dlvr.it for syndicating the RSS feed from my microblog on my website to my social media accounts.

I’ve been reading the book Release It, and I’ve started putting discussion questions on Kook Book Nook.

I’m relaunching the Release It!

I’m not a food blogger.

I’m not a food blogger.

In Release It!

Nygard states that “the major dangers to your system’s longevity are memory leaks and data growth.”

In chapter 3 of Release It!

Nudgsicle is coming along - slowly but surely.

How to fail as an indie hacker: a listicle.

Chapter 3 of Release It!

Chapter 2 of Release It!