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"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet.

"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet.

I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast, there was

Software engineers hate code.

Software Engineering

Software engineers hate code.

This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams of all sizes? A microservice architecture is

Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job.

When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.