Wes Baker

Most software engineering managers (including myself) start as software engineers themselves.

If you're wondering where all of the hobby content (RPGs, board games, miniatures, books, etc) went from this site, I decided to split my hobby content off into a separate site called Wandering Referee.

I really like how Mark Manson took the various repeated ideas around self-help and ranked them from least helpful to most helpful.

If you're wondering where all of the hobby content (RPGs, board games, miniatures, books, etc) went from this site, I decided to split my hobby content off into a separate site called Wandering Referee.

A fundamental part of being a good manager is showing up as a human.

A quick tip today to get me back into writing a bit.

A Raycast extension for monitoring and controlling Prusa 3D printers from the command bar.

A Discord bot for managing a book club rotation.

A Raycast extension for browsing and searching your Apple Photos library directly from the command bar.

I'm a big fan of board games.

I’m not the first person to write that headline, nor will I be the last, but it’s pretty clear that people forget (or never knew) that RSS is a thing.

First, some preamble: I very much enjoy RPGs and I'm always finding new ones and reading them to see if I want to run them.

I make an add-on for ExpressionEngine called Subscriber.

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Head down, fingers tapping and teeth gnashing, that's how you'd find me if I was working on someone else's code.

Do I need to buy this?

We all read for different reasons, some of us read to wind down and strip back the problems of our day.

Seeking advice is addicting and can become a proxy for action. [...]

In my career, there are plenty of folks with plenty of opinions and they all can build their own soapbox.

My attention is a fickle sort, it flits back and forth between topics on Philosophy, Psychology, Business, Design and Programming.