Match Your Audience
Communication works better when it's aimed at the person in front of you, using their language, their context, and their need to feel understood instead of dazzled.
Writing
Newer writing, articles published elsewhere, and archived blog posts.
Current Writing
Recent articles that still represent what I am thinking about now: pragmatic cloud work, small useful automation, technical tradeoffs, and the human machinery around software.
Write Software for the Team You Have
A contractor's architecture test: when the work is handed off, can the client's team understand it, extend it, and actually want to keep working that way?
An exploration of Azure Functions for a side project
Notes from moving a bash workflow into Azure Functions, including logging exceptions and saving generated PDFs to Google Drive.
Truly syncing multiple calendars
A practical look at juggling personal and client calendars without letting schedule management become its own job.
Published Elsewhere
Articles from Western Devs are collected here as part of the public body of work, with links back to their original publication.
Go just big enough for your needs or go home Bash I regret nothing! Career Prairie Dev Con 2016 Presentation Materials Speaking Why can't you just communicate properly? Communication Migrating from Jekyll to Hexo: Part 2 Static Sites Migrating from Jekyll to Hexo Static Sites Testing With Data Testing Running a .NET app against a Postgres database in Docker Docker Windows Server Containers Are Coming Whether You Like It or Not Containers Docker on Western Devs Docker PSA: Setting Up Containers in a VM in Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 3 Containers Docker Is Coming Whether You Like It or Not Docker Microservices, or "How to spread the love" Architecture Outside the shack, or "How to be a technology gigolo" Career On UI Testing Testing
Legacy Archive
Older blog posts remain preserved.
337 posts from 2006 through 2015, kept for reference and separated from newer writing so the site no longer feels frozen in time.