Category: work
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Happy Customers
We should be glad when our customers get really mad at us – because it means we’re doing something important for them (when it’s working)!
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What Went Well
Ouch if you can’t come up with something meaningful for the softball “what went well” question.
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Business Vacation
Being on an airplane can be a lot more restful when you don’t have to be responsible for trying to make being stuck on an airplane restful for one or more small humans.
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Files Are Files
I guess it would be cool if you could store files more efficiently in a database than in the files service, but…
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Exceeding Expectations
If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” about a simple API call, you probably weren’t creative enough in your response.
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Impossible Solutions
Whatever unexpected outcomes may occur, you have to admire the creativity and commitment.
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One Hundred Lines
Sure, you could write a simple 100-line program to do a lot of things where everything is acting the way you expect it to act. And then someone will breathe near it and suddenly nothing is working anymore and you… have to add some more lines of code.


